My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.

If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.

Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.

The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?

Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.

Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.

Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

Sometimes people who are never alone are the loneliest, don't you think so?

Introverted feeling types have a wealth of warmth and enthusiasm, but they may not show it until they know someone well. They wear their warm side inside, like a fur-lined coat.

New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.

You can bluff the good players, but not the bad players. Against the bad players, you have to have a hand.

My motto is very simple. Win a Ring for the King.

I can do anything I want, basically, as long as it doesn't involve athletic ability, or something like that.