It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy.

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

The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.

If your best friends do not read books, they reads you.

Some people are willing to pay the price and it's the same with staying healthy or eating healthy. There's some discipline involved. There's some sacrifices.

I love touring. If I could tour every day of my life, I would. It's my favorite thing to do.

I think many times in relationships as it escalates to marriage, what it takes to breed a marriage, is the same thing that it takes to breed a career.

My dad was a bartender that worked banquets. So that meant holidays, weekends, nights.

The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.

My kid wants to be a prison warden when he grows up so he can put thumb tacks on the electric chairs.

One of the worst mistakes anybody can make is to bet against Americans.

Not only are there African accomplices inside the imperialist system, but every African has a responsibility to understand the system and work for its overthrow.