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

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.

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.

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

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.

If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools.

Love is a byproduct of deep appreciation.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.

When there's trouble I don't like running, but I'm afraid I got more in common with who I was, than who I am becoming

Somebody is always doing something that somebody else said couldn't be done.

I seek strength, not to be greater than other, but to fight my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

I like to keep a uniform - wear a blazer, try to keep the same colour pants; very tailored, very fitted but still edgy.