Photographers don't need to be aggressive. Some are. Henry Benson is aggressive - but then he's from Fleet Street. If you can talk to people, you don't need to push people around.

I see pictures all the time. I could stay for hours and watch a raindrop.

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.

Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating or breathing.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.

Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!

I seldom think when I take a picture. My eyes and fingers react - click. But first, it's most important to decide on the angle at which your photograph is to be taken.

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

During my school years, I was never a brilliant student, but just an average one, with only above average level of curiosity.

Within sadness lives a happiness deeper than any pain.

Darling, I would follow you through the blackest midnight—just not without my trousers!

There is more to hear in what is not said.

With few words, one can speak the truth.

Love is a Dog from Hell.

Every feature has some maintenance cost, and having fewer features lets us focus on the ones we care about and make sure they work very well.

You'll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.

Life's experiences are intended to make you eventually face yourself. Face reality!

He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant.