Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.

Many people who excel are self-taught.

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye.

Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow.

It's important to let your subjects be themselves.

The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images.

Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.

What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace.

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.

And the sea trickling out of my eye as if I'd always carried it inside me, like a seashell waiting to be cupped to an ear.

None think the great unhappy but the great.

There is no revival possible in any fellowship without a price being paid.

I think it’s important for me to play well and set the tone.

An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind.

Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day.

To change, to convert? Why bother?

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

If you're not having doubt, you're not pushing the boundaries far enough.