Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

Many people who excel are self-taught.

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye.

Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow.

It's important to let your subjects be themselves.

The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images.

Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.

What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace.

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.

I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.

Comments are free but facts are sacred.

There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little.

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages.

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

Books Are Good For Lots Of Uses, Not For Dropping In The Toilet.

we can harness the energy of the winds, the seas, the sun . But the day man learns to harness the energy of love, that will be as important as the discovery of fire.

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Faith in the king comes easily in lovely times, but be faithful now and endure, pale lover.

Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.