It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.

The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.

Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.

The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.

The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Good photography is unpretentious.

That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.

I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.

Let your hands be clean

Come over here and taste me, ” he says, his voice little but a seductive whisper.

Alimony: the cash surrender value of a husband.

Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.

We JAH people can make it work.

I always wear my black watch on my left wrist so I know I'm on stage on time.

After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.

As a member of a competitive team, you want to make sure you have yourself ready to play. You don't control anything but what you do.

We weep and laugh, as we see others do.

Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.