Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.

It takes me a long time to change. I don't think you can just go out and figure out a bunch of visual ideas and photograph. The change happens in living and not through thinking.

I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.

A man's got to know his limitations.

Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I quit talking.

Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.

It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

Kindness. The most unkind thing of all.

These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here

[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.

The drama is the looking-glass in which we see the hideousness of vice and the beauties of virtue.

Telling the truth is absolutely important.

I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury and get out of there.

Forever," he vowed, still a little staggered. "That's all I'm asking for," I said.

Loved ones. They are my backbone. They are the people that I turn to when I need the most support and the people who come to me when they are in need.