Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement

Let us... leave art to the artists, and let us try to use the medium of photography to create photographs that can endure because of their photographic qualities.

In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.

Technique does not need to be interpreted. It interprets itself. You have to choose the right objects and focus on them precisely and they will tell you their own stories.

... modern life is no longer thinkable without photography.

I'd like to briefly state the accomplishment that we expect from a photographer. He must make the person being photographed forget that he has eaten from the tree of knowledge.

Awake, O brave one! Arise, O lion-heart! Be the messenger that spreads compassion.

Words whipped around me, faster than I could catch 'em.

My father once admonished me to master the laws that govern fine writing until I could weave my words into worlds. If ever I accomplish that feat, I will sign my name to the tale.

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can't bear to see it.

The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.

I would have to go back to being a dog. I've called myself a dog for many years.

Now that I'm a free agent I mean to make my own choices, and explain them to nobody if that's what pleases me.

we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.