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.

Pure photography is a system of picture-making that describes more or less faithfully what might be seen through a rectangular frame from a particular vantage point at a given moment.

And we, from within the sigh of the trees, and the soft moss underfoot, and the calling of night birds, watched him as he watched, gazing where he should not.

I read the first few, " said Jackaby. "I've instructed my duck to just file the rest directly under P. I left it to him to decide if that was for politics or paranoia.

I'm not a negative-minded person. But maybe to keep me humble, I look more at my bad games in big situations than good ones.

Women are the engine driving the growth in California's economy. Women make California's economy unique.

I don't regret anything.

The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.

You’d think a bit of kissing would cheer her up.

Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.

Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.

Heaven is a house with porch lights.