People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment... when one thing changes into something else.

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph

I still regard myself as an amateur today and I hope that's what I'll stay until the end of my life. Because I'm forever a beginner who discovers the world again and again.

You do not have to imagine things; reality gives you all you need.

The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.

I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me.

Technique isn't important. Technique is in the blood. Events and mood are more important than good light and the happening is what is important

I do not document anything, I give an interpretation.

I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.

The most valuable things in a life are a man's memories. And they are priceless.

Peaceful is he who is living in the moment, but not in the past nor in the future.

One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No flash of light. No explosion.

It is a mere needless thing to fight with ignorance with all your true strength except you can educate and change ignorance with wit and wisdom

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.

You don’t feel as real if you don’t see yourself reflected in the media […] There’s something very powerful about seeing yourself represented.

Any time in America when the military has to stand in opposition of their own citizenry, something is wrong.

Many times the rewards of fasting come after the fast, though from time to time answers can come during the fast.

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve.