What if I said that every photograph I made was set up? From the photograph, you can't prove otherwise. You don't know anything from the photograph about how it was made, really.

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

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

You think embracing the longing while waiting for the right man is impossible? Well obviously you didn't get the memo.

The attempt of trying to solve a problem without analyzing responsibilities is like trying to understand why a gun was shot without talking to the one using it.

A delusion a mockery and a snare.

Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally.

Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave

For that matter, thinking of one's self as exceptional is probably more the rule than not.

Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.

Love cannot be measured over time and space. It is not how long you know each other, it is how well you know each other.

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.