No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.

In the darkest and strangest of places with the most macabre of company, this music moves her and her life pulses hard... And even for Julie's safety, I can't bring myself to smother it.

I don't know what's worse, being ignored or stared at.

Contact with reality is not an all-or-nothing condition.

There's only 5 real jobs in the world. Teacher, fireman, policeman, doctor and somebody who is in the armed service. If you don't have one of those 5 jobs, you shouldn't take your life that serious.

Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.

The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.

Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.

This mental space is occupied and everything is mine.

They've come to overthrow the court, sir!

The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.