Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should?

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

You just have to live and life will give you pictures.

We spend much of our lives going about completely blind to reality, and yet we still have the gall to act victimized when it invariably catches up to us.

Our love would be solace, companionship, and the mending of wounds.

The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.

In Ireland, there are the same fossils, the same shells and the same sea bodies, as appear in America, and some of them are found in no other part of Europe.

Homemakers work longer and harder than any other class of worker in the United States for less pay, and are the most likely to be replaced by a younger worker.

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.

Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

You have not known even a fragment of My reality. The full nature of this reality can never be understood by anyone.

Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other.

I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule and someday I'll try to get around to it.