There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.

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

The working class had imposed upon them a sterile and authoritarian educational system which mirrored the ethos of the corporate workplace.

I think people face that in any artistic field, this idea of: oh, I could do that, if I had the time.

[Margaret Thatcher] aroused such strong loathing in so many people. That's the fact that interests me.

Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to him. That is all the doing you have to worry about.

Bin Laden, who was in his country, attacked and damaged our Pentagon, and killed our soldiers right out here at the Pentagon. But his pentagon no longer exists. It is rubble.

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

Don't think that any one technique is the end. there is no end. There is no perfect technique. Just when you think you've got them, you're dead because you didn't.

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.

Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.