Time past cannot be stopped, saved, or regained. But a photograph allows you to borrow it.

Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious.

A meaningful conceptual basis is always more important than vivid photographs, and vice versa.

Photography seems to fix, but this is an illusion created by our short lives. A photograph is merely a note held for 200 years.

Images are the currency of our age, but it's a toss-up whether live in a time of abundance or debasement.

To teach consequential photography, don't bother with Photoshop or f-stops. Create a craving for images.

If you scratch through the deceitful artifice of contemporary photography, you'll find the real artifice underneath.

The foundation laid in us before was a foundation of thoughts, traditions, and religion of men

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

What we need is more money back in the hands of Americans of any economic standing and so raising taxes right now doesnt make sense.

Kids can make fun of you for having the wrong shoelaces: that's just kids. But I don't think I had any trouble making friends.

You don't go to the people that are just like you. You go to the people that you have to earn their credit.

I played team sports, but I never felt like I fitted in that well, so this allowed me to be part of a community but to do it in my own way.

For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.