[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation.

You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there.

Making any statement of your feelings is risky. It's just like making pictures.

Photography is about being exquisitely present.

A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale and say 'Wow!'

I have to say, taking photographs is such an instantaneous act. The recognition and the acting on the recognition, depending on your equipment, is close to instantaneous.

Attempts by some teachers to adjust school curricula to incorporate programs that children watch on television suggest a new means of 'leading' children by running after them as quickly as possible.

Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going to make these pictures. We need a record.

I Can See Nothing But The Bottom Sides of Her Shoes, And Then All Became Ample Dark.

Be generous when you are giving your love.

If you are prepared, ” he told his players, “you will be confident, and will do the job.

Example is the school of mankind and they will learn at no other.

Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness.

I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.

I was born trash in a land where the people all believe themselves natural aristocrats.

The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.

Buy clothes the size you want to wear.

If there are any souls in hell, it is because that is where they insist on being.