A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.

After many paths and many years, perhaps many lifetimes, we become aware of the sacredness of our suffering.

I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.

Sometimes the autobiographical link in each story is very literal, like I did work at The Texas School for the Blind, and I did once lose a mattress out of the back of a friend's truck.

If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.

If you ever find a man who is better than you are - hire him. If necessary, pay him more than you pay yourself.

This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.

Keep painting your demons.

Progress must not become progressivism, where success is measured only by achieving pragmatic results.

All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.

An inner knowing, along with a burning desire, is the prerequisite for becoming a person capable of manifesting his or her heart's desires.