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

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.

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

For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.

Both friend and enemy, Faith leads us to the place where we lead ourselves.

Love corrupts and absolute love corrupts absolutely. The unreasonable systems of men, that is.

What intrigues me is the difference in how women experience power, and how men do.

Working your whole life wondering where the day went, the subway stays packed like a multicultural slaveship.

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it.

Right now, nearly all the apps on Facebook take a week to build. No more.

I don't think that understanding produces change. Learning produces change.

If you want to be rich, simply serve more people.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.