I want my photographs not only to be real but to portray the essence of my subjects also. In order to do that, you have to be patient.

Finding the right subject is the hardest part.

Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.

I'm interested in reality, and I'm interested in survival. I'm interested in people who aren't the lucky ones, who maybe have a tougher time surviving, and telling their story.

It’s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.

Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.

Reality is always extraordinary.

I’m just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven’t had the best breaks in society. What I want to do more than anything is acknowledge their existence.

I was fascinated by my own prom pictures.

I respect newspapers but the reality is that magazine "photojournalism" is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

I wish you a joyful Christmas and a miraculous New Year.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.

And Watford acknowledge the support of the crowd, indeed of the crowd that supported them

she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty

There are several ways to lay out a little garden; the best way is to get a gardener.

These two enormous forces - truth and meaning - are at war in today's world... And something sooner or later has to give.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

Greediness of getting more deprives... the enjoyment of what it had got.

We are most like beasts when we kill. We are most like men when we judge. We are most like God when we forgive.