When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

I see pictures all the time. I could stay for hours and watch a raindrop.

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.

Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating or breathing.

Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.

Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!

I seldom think when I take a picture. My eyes and fingers react - click. But first, it's most important to decide on the angle at which your photograph is to be taken.

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

I always prefer photographing in available light – or Rembrandt-light I like to call it – so you get the natural modulations of the face. It makes a more alive, real, and flattering portrait.

Books may well be the only true magic.

Thought assists memory in enabling it to order the material it has assembled. So that in a systematically ordered memory every idea is individually followed by all conclusions it entails.

I'm not the new anything; I'm just Agyness.

And his hands would plait the priest's entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.

Chocolates and cakes are the biggest problem I have. That is why I punish myself at the gym because I know I can't stop myself from eating what I want. I call it eating your cake and having it.

Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.

What am I supposed to do with a wool coat? Especially here in Palm Springs?” “Sleep with it,” he suggested. “Think of me.

Sometimes the best encouragement in the world is challenging someone to do more than they think they can do.

The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.