I've gotten used to not looking too far into the future; it's best when you can begin each day anew.

Photography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything.

I don’t crop my images and I always shoot handheld. By doing that I build in a kind of imperfection and this helps to emphasize reality.

I work using the Brian Eno school of thinking: limit your tools, focus on one thing and just make it work… You become very inventive with the restrictions you give yourself.

My biggest fear always is that I’ll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to how people are.

By self-analysis you can not change your character, but you may change your mentality.

Photography has taken me from isolation.

With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to show them.

I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.

Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.

I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland.

In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me.

Nothing worth knowing can ever be taught in a classroom.

Why lie, Robert? Why lie? You know that lying is the alcoholics kryptonite, you can’t afford it, the reasonable voice in his head screamed.

Were you lying?""I never lie, " he said piously. "About what?""The sand, the snake."For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.

Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit it is worse than a chance lost it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.

Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.

The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.

People want to know everything, and so they put you in the limelight. Sometimes, I am not down to earth, and I think I am flying away from the outer realms of reality.

You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.

I took a huge risk leaving baseball, because I was predicted to play in the big leagues. I'm kind of a prototypical second baseman.