There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.

Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species.

If it wasn't for flash backs, I wouldn't remember anything at all.

Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind.

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

In my many trips to South Africa, I have met and spoken to a lot of people there, and they all seem to find apartheid as repellent as you would.

Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.

I want to sing for the broadest possible audience.

And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.

What am I supposed to do with a wool coat? Especially here in Palm Springs?” “Sleep with it,” he suggested. “Think of me.

If someone is choosing between joining McKinsey or your startup it's very unlikely they're going to work out at the startup.