They were ... pure and unadulterated photographs, and sometimes they hinted at the existence of visual truths that had escaped all other systems of detection.

To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

Because we see reality in different ways, we must understand that we are looking at different truths rather than the truth and that, therefore, all photographs lie in one way or another.

Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere.

It isn't what a picture is of, it is what it is about.

The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.

The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive.

The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.

What's happening is that people are making a billion photographs a year of their cats, frequently with the cats wearing costumes. Do you think I should be doing shows of cat photography?

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

When great men die in the race of life, they continue to live because the world can still benefit from their products.

God withholds blessing only in wisdom, never in spite or aloofness.

My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.

Sometimes being a friend is enough in its own right to inspire someone on to victory.

There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.

I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden.

Everyone has a kind of magical system that they employ in the hopes that this will open up the channels.

Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte, I didn't know what I was doing and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.

I know you are, but what am I?

Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.