A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

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.

You can lose your MONEY. You can lose your FRIENDS. You can lose your JOB and you can lose your MARRIAGE...and still recover...as long as there is HOPE. Never lose HOPE.

First wives are a rite of passage into adult life. In many ways it’s important that first marriages go wrong. That’s how we learn the truth about ourselves.

You are not a burden, an accident, or a mistake. You are meant for amazing things that you can't even imagine for yourself.

Some people call me sick and twisted. I feel that I'm neither

Losers doesn't require a miracle to Win.They just keep on fighting.

Wasn't growing catnip in one's yard the kitty equivalent of giving candy to children?

Hot water makes stress, makes you embarrassed… cold makes you to refresh, calm, relax… but mainly dead people are cold and the alive are hotter.

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

I was pretty subdued [as a kid ] because I didn't want to get spanked, and I didn't want to go to Hell.

The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.