...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

You just have to live and life will give you pictures.

[O]ther thinkers have philosophised since the time of Plato, but that does not destroy the interest and beauty of his philosophy

...he went off to Paris. Actually, I don't know for sure that Paris is where he ended up.

I am not weak and can control my mind really well".

Real suspense comes with moral dilemma and the courage to make and act upon choices. False suspense comes from the accidental and meaningless occurrence of one damned thing after another.

America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians.

I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.

I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling.

I have no words. Sixteen languages, but no words. -Vishous

Even if you think the grass is greener on the other side, you’re going to have to mow that side too.

Sometimes there's no point in giving up.