The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

How much you are able to learn is determined by how much you are involved, how much you participate, and how many actions you take.

All our prayers can't keep a single leaf from falling.

No bow can be strung indefinitely, for it will surely break

No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame. For one person, in the dark where no one will ever know or see.

It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young flower, but to open it by force like an oyster.

The White House says that the vacation in Texas will give President Bush the chance to unwind. My question is, when does the guy wind?

Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.

My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.

A person should have wings to carry them where their dreams go, but sometimes a pair of skis makes a good substitute.

I really love to make movies.