The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.

Sometimes I look in the mirror and think I'm really good looking. Then other times I think my body's all wrong.

Old soul cries through the tears of a newborn

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.

Don't let the romance die, remember one thing that's going right in the sea of things that aren't.

Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.