The subject gives you the best idea of how to make a photograph. So I just wait for something to happen.

Finding the right subject is the hardest part.

Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.

I'm interested in reality, and I'm interested in survival. I'm interested in people who aren't the lucky ones, who maybe have a tougher time surviving, and telling their story.

It’s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.

Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.

Reality is always extraordinary.

I’m just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven’t had the best breaks in society. What I want to do more than anything is acknowledge their existence.

I was fascinated by my own prom pictures.

I respect newspapers but the reality is that magazine "photojournalism" is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

When you take time to study and practice the word of God, you become like a barrel of great beauty, filled with the energy drink of love with which you inspire people to inspire other people!

Ultimately though, we are not responsible for another's happiness. The unhappy person almost always suffers from self-inflicted pain.

I think I've been afraid most of my life to be myself.

I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.

Whoever has the better stuff wins. Sound familiar, American lackeys of late-stage capitalism?

I believe in the value of life. I believe we must prepare our children for tomorrow with the family values of my grandparents.

If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.

My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the idea for the book.

I found it easier to get rich than I did to make excuses.

After the Dutch left Indonesia, after the Indonesians got loose in 1945, the freemen were not as widely used, but then they went through a real Renaissance where military dictatorship took over.