It is the surface I am interested in. Because the surface is the inside.

Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.

I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images it comes closest to truth.

Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know.

I have often been asked what I wanted to prove by my photographs. The answer is, I don’t want to prove anything. They prove to me, and I am the one who gets the lesson.

Never take a picture of anything you are not passionately interested in.

Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture.

New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear.

Don't shoot til the subject hits you in the pit of your stomach.

They say my prints are bad, darling they should see my negatives

Speed, the fundamental condition of the activities of our day is the power of photography, indeed the modern art of today, the art of the split second.

Insight leads to Realisation. Realisation changes the lens, which changes the conversation. And this is the start.

You MUST do what you love. Sometimes your passion will be the only thing that keeps you motivated.

Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.

Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene.

Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.

It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but not of the world.

Tip the world over and everything loose falls into L.A.

There is no sight so ugly as the human face in anger.

The youth of India has the strength to move the entire World with a click of a mouse, we have generated that ability!

I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.