The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.

I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.

What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.

Photography helps people to see.

I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.

Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times - the pulse of today.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.

Life is like a steering wheel, it only takes one small move to change your entire direction.

Look for a GOOD NEWS story to tell. This is much better than gossip in increasing morale.

Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it’s just better form.

To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

So far, this is the oldest I've been.

When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.

Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book.

There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done.

Until your mission is an obsession, nothing will change in your life.

Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers.