You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.

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 opportunity to do what is right is available at all times.

Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.

Be a learning machine. What made you money last year, won't necessarily make you money this and next year.

When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.

You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.

Many of us don’t realize that we have a choice about which aspect of ourselves we will use as the foundation upon which we build our lives.

Turkeys know their names, come when you call, and are totally affectionate. They're better than teenagers.

I think Canadians make a lot of music because we're stuck inside all the time.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.