Reality is greater than our dreams.

Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.

The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation.

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.

Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.

Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.

The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions.

The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things.

We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted.

The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated

Choice and chance structure art and nature.

I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text.

We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe.

Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.

If you have no agenda of your own, life will work according to its agenda. Your personal agenda is taking you further and further away from that.

I fight for what I believe. If you are not willing to stand up for what you believe, your beliefs are not strong enough.

A man, as a man, could arrive at all the dignity that a man was capable of obtaining or receiving; but it needed a God to raise him to the dignity of a God.

We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.

Fierce Determination and Gentle Humility are the ornaments which make one attractive in the eyes of the Lord.

If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.

If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly.