If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist.

Nothing is staged. And nothing is already there. Everything is transformed through the camera.

It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and the imaginative.

In the end, I believe that the most important influence on my aesthetic has been the photographs I have taken.

I never prepare a speech. I never think when I give a speech, except for "don't embarrass yourself or others," meaning "remember the names of the people you have to thank."

I never think about a photo before I start it. I try to let my mind relax, and then when I get there I do it.

My best Pictures are the ones I don’t understand.

When you go searching, you never know what you will find.

[My] goal as an artist is to create increasingly complex images with greater and greater clarity of form and intensity of vision.

I found I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell asleep during Obama's speech. She woke up with the other justices drawing a gavel on her face.

There are no accidents, only encounters with destiny!

Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or the cart.

A man must rise by his own efforts and walk by faith.

I found Elvis on the Internet, I went camping with a young cadet, he showed me his bayonet.

We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.

There's no problem being wrong; it's a learning opportunity.

When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, "Let's go, let's go," and ceilings start to move up.