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

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.

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.

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

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.

When I think of Simone now, I think of butterfly wings. Beautiful and excruciatingly delicate. Touch them once and they might disintegrate.

Defeating the enemy through deception with little loss of life is better than fighting face-to-face with the loss of many lives on both sides.

And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.

I'm kind of a homebody. I like to sit at home and watch movies and eat good food.

The horror that is America is disgusting.

You know things have gone bad when military marches pass for pop music.

One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.

What happens in the past, is in the past. But don't be surprised if it comes back and haunts you.

A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.

If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake.