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

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.

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

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.

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

Jersey Shore has killed more brain cells than alcohol, cocaine, and meth combined.

Christianity did not begin with a confession. It began with an invitation into friendship, into creating a new community, into forming relationships based on love and service.

What makes a tight circle or a tight little square box more of an intellectual statement than something done emotionally, I don't know. Art is an essence, a center.

I'm definitely on the incline to a peak.

It's always fun when you see different comics at different weights or with different hair.

I'm getting those familiar feelings, and I'm just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again.

I like to write, I like to do stand-up, I like to act.

I’m not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I’m just a kid from Mississippi.

No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.

In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.