If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.

When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

All photographs are self-portraits.

One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for the image that has spirit! I don't give a damn how it got made.

Keep trying hard because there is always a next time.

Do not view the Lord as your temporary solution

Quite alone. No voice, no touch, no hand....How long must I lie here? For ever? No, only for a couple of hundred years this time, miss....

I killed her once and died for her many times

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me.

A respectable person is invariably unrespectable within.

It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.

I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone.

Sometimes because a woman is beautiful, she's not encouraged to be more, although she may have so much more to offer.