All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

Grief is like a journey one must take on a winding mountainside, often seeing the same scenery many times, a road which eventually leads to somewhere we've never been before.

Discipline brings forth maturity.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

I think that what is true is that the Russians intended to meddle, and they meddled. And it could be another country in the future.

But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people

I've learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.

I am by nature a worried optimist.

Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.