People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.

If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.

Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.

The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?

Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid, And I begin to meditate about problems I make up.

Dipping into the pitcher of the past, his father often said, can only sour the cup of the present.

Be kind to the hawk and harm the sparrow.

Emotional abuse is like being continuously kicked in the shins. It can be worse than getting one punch in the face, and it cements itself.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

Gentlemen prefer blondes, but take what they can get.

An emaciated gospel leads to emaciated worship

First thing you learnis that you'vealways got to wait

...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly.