It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.

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

Gratitude opens your eyes to the endless opportunities that expectation has hidden.

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

The procedure, not yet approved in the United States or in Europe, was a form of stem cell therapy.

When your first baby drops her pacifier, you sterilize it. When your second baby drops her pacifier, you tell the dog: 'Fetch!'

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.

The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire.

The savings bank of human existence is the weekly Sabbath.