It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.

I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.

Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something.

Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar.

I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

When you lose your simplicity, you lose your drama.

I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work

What you have to do is break all the rules.

A town with many men who are less educated and as such ignorant of the real solution to the woes of their society has the same problem as a town with many intellectuals and yet with many problems

Dream as if everything is possible.

Miley would never have been Hannah Montana.

I'm still compulsively interested in women. It's funny, I've always compulsively photographed women. I still do.

Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.

Beyond this vale of tears there is a life above. unmeasured by the flight of years; and all that life is love.

The essence of successful discipline is not technique; rather, it is self-confidence.

We attracted a lot of market timers and asset allocators. I don't need those ... amateurs in my fund.

I think I came here as a priest... The priest is more concerned with heresy than with sin; sins can be forgiven; heresy must be eliminated.

Most of us are tiptoeing through life so we can reach death safely. We should be praying, "If I should wake before I die. . . ." Life can get away from you.