It is every photographer's responsibility to discover new images and a new personal way of looking at things. If he can do this his pictures will command attention and have surprise quality.

The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who is really productive for more than eight or ten years.

It is the end result that counts.

The best way to achieve surprise quality is by avoiding cliches.

If you see something you have seen before, don't click the shutter.

If you know yourself, you are doomed.

When I say that a good picture has surprise quality or shock appeal, I do not mean that it is a loud or vulgar picture but, instead, that it stimulates my thinking and intrigues me.

Imitation is the greatest danger of the young [artist].

The photograph is not only a pictorial report; it is also a psychological report. It represents the feelings and point of view of the intelligence behind the camera.

What is good today may be a cliche tomorrow.

It is the photographer's decision at the two levels of seeing the picture - when it is shot and when it is chosen and printed that determines his personal style.

Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought.

In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.

You fear that if you lower your guard for even one second your whole world will disintegrate into chaos

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

You can get good science out of stupid questions. If someone says the world is flat, maybe in proving them wrong you can calculate the curvature of the Earth more precisely.

Glenn Beck does have a dream. Unfortunately, it's the kind of dream you have when you eat four pepperoni hot pockets right before bed.

faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas; it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.

The second German secret weapon is anti-Semitism, because if it is consistently pursued by Germany, it will become a universal problem which all nations will be forced to consider.

Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West.

It may be that the ignorant man, alone, Has any chance to mate his life with life That is the sensual, pearly spouse, the life That is fluent in even the wintriest bronze.