In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

If you look very intensely and slowly things will happen that you never dreamed of before.

The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.

It is no longer a matter of expressing reality, but of expressing what one feels about reality.

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

The inner drama is the meaning of the exterior event.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever…it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

Strive to make small changes and learn something new daily, because there is always these experiences you have had to tap into for the future.

No matter how many times you think you have failed, there is always another opportunity for you to succeed.

Does any (MFA) program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?

If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior.

Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

Life is a challenge, and I'm staying in the game to win.

It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel

The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.