The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

I know he wasn’t perfect…But he did the best impression of it I’ve ever seen.

Society says that to free a man from his demons you have to lock him in a cage

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

Grace does not choose a man and leave him as he is.

I start thinking: How many souls hip-hop has affected? How many dead folks this art resurrected? How many nations this culture connected? Who am I to judge one's perspective?

People are questioning if Ted Cruz can legally run for president because he was born in Canada. And the last thing we want to do is pave the way for a President Bieber.

Women's bodies are curvy, sensual, it's about being happy to be a woman - and sexy is always good

Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry.

Nothing is for sure. Change is the only thing that is the absolute.

I have my books and my poetry to protect me