We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

If you look very intensely and slowly things will happen that you never dreamed of before.

In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.

The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.

It is no longer a matter of expressing reality, but of expressing what one feels about reality.

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

The inner drama is the meaning of the exterior event.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever…it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's risingI came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing.To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking:Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.

Another superb movie about a mature marriage grounded in a fundamental lack of communication is Dodsworth, based on the Sinclair Lewis novel.

As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is so sadly there, so abundantly there, that if you cannot detect it, you are deceived.

The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.

Death is not the master of the house, he is only the porter of the king's lodge.

With total discipline we can solve all problems.

A person who cannot handle setbacks will never handle victories either.

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.