You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style.

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.

The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.

Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.

The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.

The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Good photography is unpretentious.

That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.

It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants…

Maybe looking at the path we've traveled will make the path ahead seem more clear.

Apparently, denial isn't just a river in Egypt.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

I'm very militant, you know, in a quite way.

I've never been one to look too far ahead since I came back into the England side and I'm not going to change that view.

Meditation means to know life beyond the sphere of the physical; to know and experience life not just at the surface but at the source.

Often, our most rewarding dreams are staring us right in the face, but for some reason we focus on how hard things are, how we are scared of the unknown and what would happen if we failed.

An empty frame, in which the picture is always changing, makes a statement about how time is always passing. It doesn't really stop, even in a single image. I t just feels that way.

I'm Jewish, but I'm totally not.