You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to all our personal dreams.

One of the things important about history is to remember the true history.

Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character.

I am a genius, I am brilliant, I am outstanding and I can achieve whatever I choose to achieve with a ... given by my Creator." That is how I am helping people.

It's nice to marry your best friend. It suits me.

Its not always you get to hit the iron when it is hot. I believe in hitting it so hard, that it gets hot.

Satyagraha is a force that has come to stay. No force in the world can kill it.

Anyone who tells you they know the future is telling you the most grotesque lie, because none of us do.

The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.