These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command--position and timing--all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them

Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure, for me, in things as-they-are.

These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command--positi on and timing--all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them

For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about.

Learn from the best; the second raters have nothing to offer.

The destination of the photograph is to reveal what something or somebody looked like, under a particular set of conditions, at a particular moment in time, and to transmit the results to others.

There are many forms of photography. I consider myself simply a recorder of that which I find of interest around me. I personally have no desire to create or stage direct ideas.

The most important piece of equipment after the camera is a good pair of shoes.

I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera.

You are not a photographer because you are interested in photography.

I think of myself as a reportage photographer. I like the word. It implies a personal account of an observed event with connotations of subjectivity but honesty. It is eye-witness photography.

Rest as if you’ll live forever

We never touch but at points.

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

If I have the chance to time travel, might as well go all out.

Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship.

It is always the time of hope, confidence and love. Everything passes; love remains. We will not be disappointed.

Everything is part of one web, one matrix of existence, beyond discussion. This is our true self in its undifferentiated form.

Out of the current confusion of ideals and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of all prosperity.

I'm not going to spend two years of my life on something that I'm not excited about.

There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.