Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.

The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.

The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.

Which is my best picture? The one I will do tomorrow.

So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

Life truly is precious. Gather every moment of it into your arms & embrace it.

You are your artYour are your songYou are your craft.You are all the immaculate designs of which you dream

I always write the script by myself.

Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter

There is new hope among people that this dispensation can fulfill their aspirations.

I was incredulous as the bias of the media in terms of the candidates [for presidency]. I was incredulous at the fake news.

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Writing becomes beautiful when it becomes specific, concrete.

When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes to astonish, shock, and seem mysterious, that is a swindle.