IT'S a pitfall to have a definition of photography.

I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame.

A picture is something that makes invisible its before and after.

The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that.

If you are capable of making good pictures it's immoral not to do so, for whatever reason or excuse you might give.

Meaning does not interest me and has almost nothing to do with my decisions or judgments.

Because image traffic has become so heavy and so continuous, it now seems as if these millions of images came into being by themselves, without the agency of a person.

I begin by not photographing.

Dragons weep, Shadows leaps, King sleeps. Dragon takes, Shadows breaks, King wakes.

Only everyone forgets how seldom our memory is accurate. Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past"p.193

You can only do so many serious dramas in a row before you want to break. You want a change.

Happiness is attained by three things: being patient when tested, being thankful when receiving a blessing, and being repentant upon sinning.

That I've lasted is one of my greatest accomplishments. Maybe my greatest.

Cutting negative people from my life does not mean I hate them, it simply means I respect me.

I would just go in my room and just scream out of anger because I didn't understand how a person could be so vicious and mean.

Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom...that is very hard indeed.

I still have a Lydia Ko-signed golf ball in my sock drawer that I'll keep for a while.

Do I want to be feared or loved? That's a good question. I want both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.