The definition of a great picture is one that stays with you, one that you can't forget. It doesn't have to be technically good at all.

If you wait, people will forget your camera, and the soul will drift up into view.

A picture can express a universal humanism, or simply reveal a delicate and poignant truth by exposing a slice of life that might otherwise pass unnoticed.

Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a persons face.

If you want to be a photographer, first leave home

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

Some of the great pictures happen along the journey and not necessarily at your destination.

I strive for individual pictures that will burn in people's memories.

What matters most is that each picture stands on its own with its own place and feeling.

I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in.

The photograph is an undeniably powerful medium. Free from the constraints of language, and harnessing the unique qualities of a single moment frozen in time.

In other circumstances, Ivan might have offered him a job. Sadly, with a few notable meta exceptions, dead men didn’t code very well.

God is usually on the side of big squadrons and against little ones.

A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.

All sensible investing is value investing

I love you, Elizabeth... and more than that, I like you. I enjoy spending time with you.

There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

There is nothing like a man for bringing out the animal in an animal.

Every film is exciting because I get new tools and cool new things to do.

To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love.

Be content to be what you are; shiny stones and silver bangles only make you look what you really are.