Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to what it might be good for.

To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

Because we see reality in different ways, we must understand that we are looking at different truths rather than the truth and that, therefore, all photographs lie in one way or another.

Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere.

It isn't what a picture is of, it is what it is about.

The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.

The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive.

The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.

What's happening is that people are making a billion photographs a year of their cats, frequently with the cats wearing costumes. Do you think I should be doing shows of cat photography?

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

Love I find is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.

My seat has been the seat of kings, and I will have no rascal to succeed me.

The perfect fascist state needs to operate in conditions of perpetual warfare. Have you ever noticed how the world has been in constant crisis since World War II?

Reach for the stars; you might just catch one.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

I've spent the first part of my life in the shadow of my family. I'm not going to live in the shadow of my husband.

My fans are activists they will fight with you to defend me.

I don't pretend to see the path, but I know it's there all the same. One day, we'll look back and wonder how we ever missed it.

I was pitching on all adrenaline and challenging them. I was throwing the ball right down the heart of the plate.