The key is to not let the camera, which depicts nature in so much detail, reveal just what the eye picks up, but what the heart picks up as well.

It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.

We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward.

Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.

We're responsible for everything that's included in the frame. We're also responsible for what's not included in the frame. We're responsible for the way we frame the world.

The influence of mystery is the greatest influence.

What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see. Perception, belief, action, and change are codependent.

We always point the lens both outward and inward.

Less information often leads to more interpretation.

We see the world through our experience.

Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force.

People need God the way a three-year-old needs a chainsaw.

Never let your fears ever stop you from living your life

If you push your luck too hard, fortune's muscles might tear.

The distinctive feature of Christianity is blood atonement. Without it we cannot be saved. Blood is actually a symbol of the death of Christ.

We don’t give a damn to the insects on our Earth, but if we could find even a single insect on Mars, the whole world would cherish it like crazy!

Apart from anything else, I find boots are too hot except in wintry weather. At home I usually wear a sweater, shirt and slacks.

That's been my fear all along. That I'm not enough, and I still don't trust at all that I am.

My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had to go to the high-achieving, academic public high school.

As a result of that, and as a result of friendship, I don't think we've ever been competitive. I mean, there's probably a very good reason Hunter [S. Thompson] isn't jealous of me.