I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.

If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.

Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?

Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.

I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.

I have read the last page of the Bible. It isall going to turn out all right.

Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'

An important question to ask is, 'Where and when did decoration and utility first meet?

The eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be found out" is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can never get away from.

The best use of history is as an inoculation against radical expectations, and hence against embittering disappointments.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.

Hell is full of good intentions.

I just want to have a great relationship with my child and have a great family dynamic.