In New York’s Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers.

I see pictures all the time. I could stay for hours and watch a raindrop.

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.

Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating or breathing.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.

Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!

I seldom think when I take a picture. My eyes and fingers react - click. But first, it's most important to decide on the angle at which your photograph is to be taken.

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?

She is the one relentless, constant thought in my head and tug in my damn chest. The only she that has ever existed in my life.

Nothing will change until we change - until we throw off our dependence and act for ourselves.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production.

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky... Nice work if you can get it And you can get it -- if you try.

Music always sounds better on Friday.

Sometimes you have to take a break from being a crazy kid. You can’t be doing that all the time. Sometimes you just have to pay respect to your own simple-ness.