Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

Hardening of the categories causes art disease.

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them?

I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.

If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher.

What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?

My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding.

The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest—yes. Objective—no.

It will never be all that I want it to be…But it is always twice what I expected.

Story should be a descent -- the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down.

I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.

Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't paint.

Seek for the boldest color possible, content is irrelevant.

The voters in my district, and around the country, have demanded that Congress get a hold on the influx of illegal immigrants and tighten the security around our borders.

It is because my roots are so strong that I can fly.

A problem is only a problem when viewed as a problem. All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.

Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.