It's always more comforting to know that in any given corner of any room or any location you're on, you can make a photograph that you'll appreciate.

Many people who excel are self-taught.

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye.

Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow.

It's important to let your subjects be themselves.

The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images.

Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.

What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace.

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.

Everyone belongs to God. Rather black or white there is no colour for God. He loves all.

War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live.

I see myself..in those pages as she goes back and forth, enjoying simply enjoying the beauties of the moments then chastising herself for having ‘no edge’ being simple and worse, harmless.

Are you saying that it hurts to look at me?' 'I'm saying you're the first sunlight I've glimpsed in a long time, ' he said.

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation and there must be a vent.

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.

For what we think upon, that we become.

Teach us by your lives.

People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.