[The] arresting of time is photography's unique capacity, and the decision of when to click the shutter is the photographer's chief responsibility.

Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness.

A lawsuit is to ordinary life what war is to peacetime. In a lawsuit, everybody on the other side is bad. A trial transcript is a discourse in malevolence.

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.

I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.

The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive.

Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts.

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.

There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.

Energy comes not from your muscle neither from your heart. It comes from your inner source.

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.

I love your loneliness. It is brave. It makes the universe want to protect you.

If you remain in a positive spiral, you will always learn something new to reach your goals.

Jesus did not predict a place. Jesus predicted a people.

In the good times of Dada, we detested polished works, the distracted air of spiritual struggle, the titans, and we rejected them with all out being.

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

Each person entering our world brings either a contribution or destruction.

When we learn to expect more success than failure in life, we soon will develop an attitude of success.

Dream beautiful dreams and then work to make those dreams come true.