The best way to achieve surprise quality is by avoiding cliches.

The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who is really productive for more than eight or ten years.

It is the end result that counts.

If you see something you have seen before, don't click the shutter.

It is every photographer's responsibility to discover new images and a new personal way of looking at things. If he can do this his pictures will command attention and have surprise quality.

If you know yourself, you are doomed.

When I say that a good picture has surprise quality or shock appeal, I do not mean that it is a loud or vulgar picture but, instead, that it stimulates my thinking and intrigues me.

Imitation is the greatest danger of the young [artist].

The photograph is not only a pictorial report; it is also a psychological report. It represents the feelings and point of view of the intelligence behind the camera.

What is good today may be a cliche tomorrow.

It is the photographer's decision at the two levels of seeing the picture - when it is shot and when it is chosen and printed that determines his personal style.

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Everybody has own gifts from God. You just need to seize the right time, right place and right person to be found.

Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.

Happy, happy, happy for all that God hath done, Glad of all the little leaves dancing in the sun.

The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.

You seem to have no real purpose in life and won't realize at the age of twenty-two that for a man life means work, and hard work if you mean to succeed.

None is poor but the mean in mind, the timorous, the weak, and unbelieving; none is wealthy but the affluent in soul, who is satisfied and floweth over.

Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared!

I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. (suicide note)

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!