Words of wisdom for every photographer: 'Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking'. So said Goethe.

When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants.

Predators and prey always coexist. That's why we have galleries as well as photographers.

But there are times when thinking is misplaced, like when taking photographs. You cannot think your way to making photographs; you can photograph your way to clearer thinking.

Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.

Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese.

Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom.

The best way for photographers to become rich and famous is to go into another field.

At exhibition openings always praise the chicken for laying eggs; you can wring its neck later.

I start a lot of photo projects but never seem to. . . .

Photographers, like kids, should be seen and not heard.

I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.

I never want to play the same character twice. I like to do different roles. I have fun with that.

Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate.

Get yourself a notebook and write in it EVERY night for two weeks. Then stop if you can. If you can't, you're a writer.

The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand.

What must be the wealth that avarice, aided by power, cannot exhaust!

Grow up, Donald Trump. Grow up. Time to be an adult. You're president. You've got to do something. Show us what you have.

There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!

We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what otherwise is a "please sit with your hands on your lap" kind of event.

It's just one more win. I don't give a [bleep] how we do it, as long as we get it done. Did I say [bleep]? I'm sorry.