The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.

Genius is talent set on fire.

If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything.

When the people you love are gone, you're alone.

I did rocks, all this dumb stuff. But now it's just trying to stay afloat and just get through the days.

If I am unhappy, I can write "damn it" in my personal diary, but I can't do that on a microblog so I might as well not start one.

Satriani's Law: There's at least a 30% chance that someone will print the name Satriani incorrectly

A gospel that in no way offends the sinner has not been understood.

I always think, when I'm in motion, writing seems like the most natural thing.

Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.