Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make.

Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.

A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.

Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.

For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.

Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.

It was like the panting of a thousand puppies.

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.

New Year's Day is a good time to fix one's eyes on the only One who knows what the year is to hold.

I personally translated the word 'vendetta' as Italian for 'What do you mean, "you want to see other women"?

The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it is determined by his heredity.

The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this.

I'm really, really, really, really conservative with money. I got to give myself a lot of excuses to spend money, because I come from nothin'.

The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.