Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can't see watches you.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.

Always be truthful and you will have fewer visits from regret, guilt or fear.

This kiss was better than any climb or bungee jump or zip line. Better than any other kiss. Damn him.

Never put your trust in men. You will be disappointed. In any situation, ask yourself, “What can I do for myself to overcome the situation”.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.

Meaning drives us from despair to wonder, from confusion to clarity, from hesitance to confidence. And the only place to find meaning is in the importance of small things.

Every love song I write is for Linda.

You can do too much and oversell your market.

Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

The light had simply and utterly destroyed the darkness.