Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.

I listen closely to her breathing getting slower, deeper until her hand settles over my heart, only beating for her. — Duke

My nipples tightened as I breathed in his musky scent mixed with cologne. I didn’t recognize the brand, but it spoke to something inside me. It whispered come closer, and my heart pounded harder.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing - between two fictions.

Grace is power as well as pardon.

This song ain't black or white and as far as I know it don't infringe on anyone's copyright.

It's hard to do things like auditions, because you don't want to put weeks of work into just an audition.

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.

I like Public Enemy a great deal.

Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down.