Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you.

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.

A picture is the expression of an impression

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.

I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.

It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.

I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.

Life is a series of moments. The quality of attention and action that we bring to each moment determines the quality of our lives.

All manifestation of fear is a reflection of the fact that humanity has forgotten its spiritual identity. In beginning to remember it, we put fear on notice that its days are numbered.

There were people you could hug, and then there was Silas.

The best films in the world, you've got to beg and plead and try your best to get.

Be genuine. Be remarkable. Be worth connecting with.

When you're at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.