My best Pictures are the ones I don’t understand.

Nothing is staged. And nothing is already there. Everything is transformed through the camera.

It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and the imaginative.

In the end, I believe that the most important influence on my aesthetic has been the photographs I have taken.

I never prepare a speech. I never think when I give a speech, except for "don't embarrass yourself or others," meaning "remember the names of the people you have to thank."

I never think about a photo before I start it. I try to let my mind relax, and then when I get there I do it.

When you go searching, you never know what you will find.

If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist.

[My] goal as an artist is to create increasingly complex images with greater and greater clarity of form and intensity of vision.

Why should I even bother? What's the point, really?"He thought for a moment. "Who says there has to be a point?" he asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do.

Worry is most often a prideful way of thinking that you have more control over life and its circumstances than you actually do.

There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

... the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy.

I like sharing stuff with people. I feel like it's kind of at their own discretion, you can see too much if you want to see too much.

Being pro-life is a basic perspective of everything I do.

You've got to believe you're going to win, and I believe we'll win the World Cup until the final whistle blows and we're knocked out.

When I was in court I was the judge; when I was out of court I wasn't. Most people didn't address me as judge when I was in public.

Uber is efficiency with elegance on top. That’s why I buy an iPhone instead of an average cell phone, why I go to a nice restaurant and pay a little bit more. It’s for the experience.