Back in the 70s it cost 15-20$ a shot for the film, the processing, and the contact sheet, now it’s twice that.

I wanted to make pictures that felt natural, that felt like seeing, that didn’t feel like taking something in the world and making a piece of art out of it.

If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism.

I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph.

The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.

A photograph has edges the world does not.

I'm always interested in finding new aesthetic problems to deal with and challenge myself, even if the aesthetic problem is one of content.

A lot of the photography I'm doing and thinking about is directed at Instagram.

As not a native, I have the advantage of not seeing scenes habitually. I can see things fresh.

I know that people think of my work from the '70s as American, but I've been going to other places for a long time.

I had a creative hot streak in the 1940s and since then I’ve been pot boiling.

Believe me, my boy, women don't love a man for himself but as a weapon against other women.

With the warmth of an alien sun on his back, Jacob took a deep breath at the door and knocked.

Baby, I could watch you watching paint dry, and I still wouldn’t be bored.” Garrett Graham, my own personal sweet-talker.

The most valuable lessons come not from teachers or textbooks, but from life experience.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

After watching wrestling for 20 years, I thought I had enough confidence to do it. There were no wrestling schools at the time.

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Who would true valour see, Let him come hither; One here will constant be, Come wind, come weather There’s no discouragement Shall make him once relent His first avowed intent To be a pilgrim.

The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.

We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.