Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion is present, the result is almost invariably affirmative.

Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

Hardening of the categories causes art disease.

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them?

I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.

If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher.

What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?

My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding.

We need at least one enemy to know our own stuff>>>

Do not be disappointed if no one appreciates your true feelings, because they do not deserve them.

Waiting is a form of passive persistence.

Sure, the outcome was favourable, but what was the cost? Wasn't changing the way she felt about something not far from taking away her free will altogether?

There's lots of opportunities out there in life, but if you never put yourself out on a limb and take chances you'll never dare to be great at anything.

There is only one categorical imperative in golf, and that is to hit the ball. There are no minor absolutes.

We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist.

Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, its the best job in the world.