There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers I have no interest in at all.

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

Don't be afraid of change. You may lose something good, but you will gain something better.

People make you retract spoken words but they do not understand [know] that speech is a record, so how can anyone retract it?

It is the nature of human that we tend to pass our pain along. As if we could get rid of it by inflicting an equal hurt on someone else.

Christmas, just like life itself - will become all that you choose or want it, to be.

Whattaya mean you ain’t no criminal lawyer? You a lawyer right? And you in here, that means you also a criminal.

Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.

It's actually easier to play a leading role than it is to play a supporting role.

Remember that you create your world. It’s not what happens to you, but how you choose to deal with it.

The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view