The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

You just have to live and life will give you pictures.

Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love light and compassion. Life will be beautiful.

In a stream of life, we find the source of life.

How....will I ever truly depict you?You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.

I’ll wait for you, ” he said as his hand dropped to his side, as his eyes began to dim. “I think I could wait for you forever.

After a truly good meal, an outstanding cigar is still the most satisfying after-dinner activity that doesn't involve two human beings.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.

poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God.

I have outlived that care that curries public favour or dreads the public frown…let the hand of law strike me down if it will, but I ask that my story be heard and considered.

Most investors say "Don't take risks." The rich investor takes risks.