There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup.

If you do not see what is around you every day, what will you see when you go to Tangiers?

A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar.

No amount of technical knowledge and competence is, of itself, sufficient to make a craftperson into an artist. That requires caring - passionate caring about ultimate things.

The camera points both ways. In expressing the subject you also express yourself.

Creation and creativity are inextricably linked.

Thirty-six satisfactory exposures on a roll means a photographer is not trying anything new

Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'

Not every work of art is or need be a heavily profound statement.

The abstracting of visual elements in order to recognize their particularity has become automatic, but seeing, combining, and creating them as integrated 'wholes' will remain a lifelong challenge.

Every artist is, first of all, a craftperson thoroughly knowledgeable about the materials, tools, and techniques of his or her particular medium and skilled in using many of them.

Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.

Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.

The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from Hebrew into English or from English into Hebrew, becomes a different book because language is a musical instrument.

Women like me. Women love me, so if I really wanted to involve the women, I don't have to assault the women.

those who use the word 'lifestyle' are rarely in possession of either.

Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.

I've been criticized for the things I chose and things I've chosen to do.

Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings.

The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity.

There can be no greatness in things. Things cannot be great. The only greatness is unselfish love.