A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.

Because we see reality in different ways, we must understand that we are looking at different truths rather than the truth and that, therefore, all photographs lie in one way or another.

Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere.

It isn't what a picture is of, it is what it is about.

The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.

The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive.

The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.

What's happening is that people are making a billion photographs a year of their cats, frequently with the cats wearing costumes. Do you think I should be doing shows of cat photography?

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

Pure photography is a system of picture-making that describes more or less faithfully what might be seen through a rectangular frame from a particular vantage point at a given moment.

The wolf pounces on the sheep when the shepherd strays.

We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.

If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.

When the women start to push 40, they're not single, fun girls around town any more.

Goodbye, everybody! (Suicide note)

I thought I was funny as a kid. I used to play tricks on my brothers - I'd tie a two-shilling piece to a bit of cotton, then pull it away as they went to grab it.

..It's not about age...I believe women of all ages can wear anything.

I am the only living person in the English speaking world who didn't have the Narnia books as a child.

Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.

You must manage yourself before you can lead someone else.