You don't solve anything ever, really. You simply state a problem which, when you're lucky, gives you some idea of what possible problems you can - it indicates, you know, your future headaches.

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

The best lessons of life are learnt in silence and solitude.

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.--The Fruit Hunters

Like many who have no reason for pride, that very lack of reason for it made me the prouder.

In the realm of faith, there is no fear.

As a designer and someone that likes getting my hands dirty, it's hard. It's a competition. I can't give too much away. One thing I could do was offer encouraging words.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

I know pretty well what evidence is, and I tell you, such evidence as that for the resurrection has never broken down yet.

I take pride knowing that I hustle, day in and day out.

I deal with temptation by yielding to it.