Two people could look at the same flowers and feel differently about them. Why not? I'm not making ads. I couldn't care less.

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

Don't wait till tomorrow to achieve your goals, live in the present and look forward to the future. Forget yesterday and start living today.

I'm so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.

Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.

President Bush and his administration have tried to pull the wool over our eyes and distract the public from this possibly illegal domestic spying scandal.

Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.

Legalizing homosexuality is not the first step on a slippery slope to legalizing everything.

I started [performing] so young that it might have just been that I kind of had to grow up and make people understand that I was worth listening to, even though I was a child.

Sometimes when you open a book, time stops.

To know that there's a good chance that this is something that could potentially be around well after I leave this planet... it's a good feeling.