Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

Everyone has a point of view. Some people call it style, but what we're really talking about is the guts of a photograph. When you trust your point of view, that's when you start taking pictures.

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.

A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.

Who we are’ and ‘what is our own’ that we have to understand

As much as we all know that some things are easier said than done, we have to understand that if we don't say it, we may never do it.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him everybody sees them.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women.

For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.

School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man.

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

There can be no dedication to Canada's future without a knowledge of its past.

The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.

I'm hoping that what I am or what I'm not ethnically doesn't limit me in anyone else's eyes. I guarantee you it doesn't in mine.