A photograph can look any way.

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

Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and works of the intellect.

Change your meanings you alter your destiny. Life does not give us what we want. Life gives us whatever we expect.

The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people.

A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake.

All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.

I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

All stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.

You can't tell a doper well under control from a vegetarian book-keeper.

What matters most is that each picture stands on its own with its own place and feeling.