You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

Covering a historic event is perfectly legitimate. It's not sneaking into somebody's boudoir... These people belong to history, and not to record that if you have the opportunity would be wrong.

Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.

After following the crowd for a while, I'd then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me.

Working myself into a position of total versatility, so that I can do anything I want to do at the time I want to do it. Whether I do it or not is another question.

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.

Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation.

There is a horror that sometimes comes with being right.

Soon, when all is well, you're going to look back on this period of your life and be so glad that you never gave up.

...a row of tables manned by seated, serious women. Each woman looked like she could be someone's least-favourite aunt.

I don't have a command for 'stop wagging your tail'.

A strong personal philosophy does more than sustain us through the tragedies of life. It also stains us daily in everything we think and do. It gives us optimism and hope.

We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

We have to convince the people of Bucharest, who are dog lovers, to treat dogs like they treat their children and not just let them roam the streets.

Every second of your definitionally temporary consciousness, you are choosing how you spend something that will not last forever.

Confidence is a horrible thing

We are all Malaysians. This is the bond that unites us. Let us always remember that unity is our fundamental strength as a people and as a nation.