A picture is the expression of an impression

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.

Color is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it.

We all would love sometimes to be free from our own knowledge. It is even the most difficult to unlearn - as the most important problems are.

Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create... facts, essays, poems - do you want to speak or to sing?

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most, I shot.

There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy, it will be more difficult.

in the smallest cells are reflections of the largest. And in photography, through an interplay of scales, a whole universe within a universe can be revealed.

Dare the impossible. By grace it will be possible.

I've never been poor only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation.

Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.

allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

Whether I'm writing the script, or someone else writes the initial draft, I'm always an actor's director first. I always try to listen to them a lot, and try to put their voices into their character.

The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.

I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.

I am confident and not trying to hide my bump. I actually want to accentuate it.

I do kind of transcend the song and give it a different meaning.

You can't always be the jokester and the doormat.