If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

Fall in love. Every day. With everything. With life. If you can fall in love, you can be a photographer. I think that is absolutely essential.

If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

Woman has been the target of much that is sordid and cheap, especially in photography. To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the image of woman, has been my mission.

A person cannot learn to be a photographer. He can only cultivate what he already has. I try to make people aware that they have something very precious to cultivate.

If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning

There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.

If you can't make the image bigger or more important than what you see, then don't push the button

Get down, ' Bunty says grimly. 'Mummy's thinking.' (Although what Mummy's actually doing is wondering what it would be like if her entire family was wiped out and she could start again.)

Getting to know God and being able to call on Him is the most important step in storing up for the storms.

Everything seems so small, so trivial, when you're on the right altitude.

Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day!

There are different kinds of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it.

I would have put more emphasis on bringing working class people together to fight for a government that works for all of us.

I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.

Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.

It's my wish that I can help creative people think of new ways to be creative - to get more joy and understanding from their own unique processes.

Intellectual disgrace Stares from every human face, And the seas of pity lie Locked and frozen in each eye.