The one thing that is always clear in my mind is that the people, and their stories, and the themes of life that I photograph are always more important to me than the process of photography itself.

[W]orship, if not the child, is at leastthe brother, of fear.

Spirituality actually must be above politics. Or some other sort of business.

Could the situation be that we no longer believe in that particular place? Or maybe we were all promised Heaven in our lifetimes, and what we ended up with can't help but suffer in comparison.

Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger column and my goodwill purer gold than the columns and gold of rich schools.

Art will always be art.

If you fall in love with 2 people at once choose the second one because if you truly loved the first one you never would have fell in love with the second one

The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.

To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.

I've had it-the agencies, the winking, the networks, the ratings. Anyone who thinks TV is an art medium is crazy-it's an advertising medium.