If you view your life as a piece of fabric or a tapestry, the photography is the stitching. It keeps everything together.

Our pictures are our footprints. It’s the best way to tell people we were here.

Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.

Always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.

Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you’re engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting...wonderful!

You’ve gotta taste the light, like my friend and fellow shooter Chip Maury says. And when you see light like this, trust me, it’s like a strawberry sundae with sprinkles.

The most important piece of equipment in your bag is your attitude

If you're not having fun, your pictures will reflect that.

A career in photography is a journey without a destination.

John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.

To me, pictures are about memory.

You were not put on this earth just to get in touch with God.

The minute more than two people know a secret, it is no longer a secret.

I had glow in the dark bands made up and I've given away a ton of them.

Run my dear, From anything That may not strengthen Your precious budding wings.

Van Gogh is the best example of how a person can be on the right track, propelled by gut feeling and some kind of strange obsessive stubborn conviction, that no one seems to understand.

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

Every love story is a potential grief story.

Religion was created by insecure men to oppress women. Religion is the basis of all political ideas and it exempts the human being to find the "I" in them.

There is no college for the conscience.