It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.

We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward.

Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.

The key is to not let the camera, which depicts nature in so much detail, reveal just what the eye picks up, but what the heart picks up as well.

We're responsible for everything that's included in the frame. We're also responsible for what's not included in the frame. We're responsible for the way we frame the world.

The influence of mystery is the greatest influence.

What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see. Perception, belief, action, and change are codependent.

We always point the lens both outward and inward.

Less information often leads to more interpretation.

We see the world through our experience.

Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force.

Everything has its poetry. 94

Art is the reflection of pure emotion and mind, the nature of sensation. An artist illustrates that.

Some are saving their right now for later, when tomorrow could be never.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

It wasn't fair that my friends could stay at Captain Morgan's pirate ship party while I was drop-kicked into a basement with homeless people chanting the Serenity Prayer.

I will not be afraid to let my talent shine.

The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.

You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.