Quality … has to do with intention.

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

Covering a historic event is perfectly legitimate. It's not sneaking into somebody's boudoir... These people belong to history, and not to record that if you have the opportunity would be wrong.

Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.

After following the crowd for a while, I'd then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me.

Working myself into a position of total versatility, so that I can do anything I want to do at the time I want to do it. Whether I do it or not is another question.

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.

Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation.

Imagine – hundreds of years of constant learning. It’s truly amazing.

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

I wanted to emulate my father. I wanted to be as tough as he was. I wanted to do the things that he did. I watched him.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

You can't do anything interesting with cutting-edge technology except not make it cutting-edge.

We have to use our freedoms and privileges to see what respite we can give to those less equipped to deal with their challenges.

I think that if Essien Udom had something he didn't take it back far enough in history to get at the proper understanding of it.

In science, if an idea is not falsifiable, it is not that it is wrong, it is that we cannot determine if it is wrong, and thus it is not even wrong.

If you cannot bow to Buddha, you cannot be a Buddha. It is arrogance.