It's a lot of work organizing something, whether it's a show or a book, and I don't want to do it every day.

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

Well, well, my dear. Are we so brokenhearted as that? Is the loss of that terrible prince really worth your life?

It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.

Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.

A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

I don't know how you can move out of one's socioeconomic category if you don't have education.

Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.

It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err — not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all.

Sometimes I think more creativity is put into muffin recipes than into the rest of society combined.

What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

An educated mind is practiced in the uses of reason, which inevitably leads to a skeptical outlook.