The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.

My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time.

To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.

For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.

A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.

To keep from going stale you must forget your professional outlook and rediscover the virginal eye of the amateur.

The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence

The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. (meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he, the photographer, meets the reality he wishes to capture.

The surrealism of my pictures was nothing but the real made eerie by vision. I was trying to express reality, for there is nothing more surrealist.

There are many photographs which are full of life but which are confusing and difficult to remember. It is the force of an image which matters.

Life's a gloomy puddle, until you start jumping in it.

The soul’s steps are greater than the heart’s leaps.

You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.

I hate doing photo shoots.

He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

Take a picture not a trophy This is how real men shoot animals

Do not complain then of your poverty, my daughter, - we only complain of that which is unwelcome, and if poverty is unwelcome to you, you are no longer poor in spirit.

The great thing about cheap natural gas, again it's cheap, and it provides a cleaner alternative to coal. But it's still a fossil fuel, and because it's still a fossil fuel, it still emits carbon.

There exists in the world today a gigantic reservoir of good will toward us, the American people.

If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, 'This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'