Working on photography is working on oneself.

I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.

Photographing a cake can be art.

I always thought we were selling dreams, not clothes

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today.

The printed page seems to have come to something of a dead end for all of us.

Obviously there was Keith Haring and Robert Mapplethorpe, but Howard was on the brink of becoming a famous director - it didn't happen because he died.

For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.

I want to be dictator.

More and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that a real violation

Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all.

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness

If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid.

Every company has a rocky beginning.

What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat

And I believe the truth is mighty, and shines by its own light.