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

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.

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.

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

Telling the truth can be a dirty job.

The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.

Being in a band is about making the band the priority.

Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.

Let man heal the hurt places and revere whatever is still miraculously pristine.

I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

Some people are destined to be deep thinkers. I am not one of those people.

Three years without a Premiership title? I don't think I would still be in a job.

In two words," said Alan quietly, "there is nothing I love half as much as you.