What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.

If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you.

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

I didn't want to be a woman photographer. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera.

What do you hang on the walls of your mind?

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.

I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.

The life of a man who is ignorant of his destiny is meaningless

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

I pride myself in being an aficionado of the British seaside. Throughout my career, I have visited and worked in many of the famous British resorts, from Great Yarmouth to Largs.

Angelina Jolie’s older brother James Haven, the one she made out with, has a license plate on his SUV that reads Shiloh. Maybe it’s not that weird. After all, he could be the father.

I have always found men quite fathomable. They look entirely to their own interest.

When you face adversity, you need to remind yourself that whatever is trying to defeat you could very well be what God will use to promote you.

I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.

All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.

To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.

Well I looked in my moms closet and saw what I was getting for Christmas, an ultravibe pleasure 2000.