So many people are diverted to doing what people want photographed - fashion models, buildings, mountains - they get to thinking those photographs are good.

You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.

I never think of myself as an artist. I think of myself as making a point.

I have an abiding faith in the fact that time will change the value of photographs. What you see today may be so familiar to everyone that they don't immediately appreciate or value it.

You have to bring to the photograph a prejudice about something, and I'm prejudiced against farmers who tie dead animals on fences. Therefore, I can make a meaningful photograph.

Edward [Weston] was the first artist - and I don't use the word lightly - to make a living doing art photography. Other photographers did commercial work, or worked for the government.

Some women nodded, others shook their heads. I would have killed myself before I let one of them move into my house. Would you Helen? Would you really?

Loss eventually arrives when something departs. Grief is working through both.

We cannot force the development of mindfulness.

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.

I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).

My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that. They just said, "Come as you are."

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto's a city that doesn't even have a dish named after it.

Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.

Even though they are paid differently, everyone has to feel appreciated.