If you do not see what is around you every day, what will you see when you go to Tangiers?

There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup.

A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar.

No amount of technical knowledge and competence is, of itself, sufficient to make a craftperson into an artist. That requires caring - passionate caring about ultimate things.

The camera points both ways. In expressing the subject you also express yourself.

Creation and creativity are inextricably linked.

Thirty-six satisfactory exposures on a roll means a photographer is not trying anything new

Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'

Not every work of art is or need be a heavily profound statement.

The abstracting of visual elements in order to recognize their particularity has become automatic, but seeing, combining, and creating them as integrated 'wholes' will remain a lifelong challenge.

Every artist is, first of all, a craftperson thoroughly knowledgeable about the materials, tools, and techniques of his or her particular medium and skilled in using many of them.

What goes on between a man and his missus is nobody's business

People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction.

I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.

I think everybody in my generation, we wanted to be Elvis.

The goal was 'every child a wanted child'; it should also have been 'every abortion a wanted abortion', but the two sides of the phony debate were never to meet.

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

Journalists always like an excuse for why are they talking about something now when they didn't talk about something a week ago. They always like to say something is new.

I am not a finisher, I am a starter. And I am always thinking, what is the next project.

No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.

Steve Jobs was Galileo in a past life. Discovery was instinctual for him.