There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.

If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

Fall in love. Every day. With everything. With life. If you can fall in love, you can be a photographer. I think that is absolutely essential.

If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

Woman has been the target of much that is sordid and cheap, especially in photography. To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the image of woman, has been my mission.

A person cannot learn to be a photographer. He can only cultivate what he already has. I try to make people aware that they have something very precious to cultivate.

If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning

If you can't make the image bigger or more important than what you see, then don't push the button

This coming from the god who zinged Guinevere and Lancelot while King Arthur was away slaying dragons.

Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.

As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but by the men they make.

I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be real by being imperfect.

A clear conscience is the softest pillow in the world.

Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.

The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.

Even hooligans marry, though they know that marriage is for a little while. It is alimony that is for ever.

What is terrible when you seek the truth, is that you find it. You find it, and then you are no longer free to follow the biases of your personal circle, or to accept fashionable clichés.