Photographing a cake can be art.

I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

Working on photography is working on oneself.

I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.

I always thought we were selling dreams, not clothes

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today.

The printed page seems to have come to something of a dead end for all of us.

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

Do not confuse kindness with weakness. Kindness is a dying art. It is the single most important quality in this world and one which is sorely lacking.

...he considered respect for one's given word as a wealth that should not be squandered.

I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.

Dancing, singing, storytelling and silence are the four universal healing salves.

I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.

For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, I'd lose the joy.

Our souls are prisoners of the terror of death, and the day is beautiful.

A MOB is not, as is so often said, mindless. A MOB is single-minded.