In this, photography is the same thing as love. When my gaze, diving into the sea as my subject, converges with the act of photography, hot sparks fly at the point of intersection.

Photography means releasing oneself from one type of gravity and placing oneself in a space where a different force is trying to move you.

In short, [photography] is a matter of turning loneliness into thoughts.

A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience.

A photographer looks at everything, which is why he must look from beginning to end. Face the subject head-on, stay fixed, turn the entire body into an eye and face the world.

If I had seven lives, I'd be a photographer in every one.

There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.

We had gone out there to pass the beautiful day of high summer like true Irishmen - locked in the dark Snug of a public house.

Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about.

That woman in the shampoo commercial - she's happy. She's... she's too happy.

For years, I kept a Post-it note above my desk. WORK NOT LOVE! was what it said. It seemed a sturdier kind of happiness.

Art is life, life is art - the question is what came first?

If my career were a hairstyle, it would be helmet-head.

I hope to work through disappointment and frustration with as much grace as [Georgia] O'Keeffe did, and I hope to have the same confidence in my own vision.

I play a nice crazy lady whose morals are right but who is really foundering.

If we build our military up to Ronald Reagan levels, [Vladimir] Putin's not going to push us anywhere because he can't match us.