Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.

A good book should leave you....slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.

The life that brings light in the family often attracts darkness in form of envy and hatred that stands as encumbrances

I took your name when I took those vowsI meant 'em back then and I mean 'em right now.

Appreciate water before you are thirsty! Appreciate all the good things before you need them!

In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

The main thing is not to let go of the vine.

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Future comes by itself, progress does not.