Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else.

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

We should not take our ‘Humanity’ for granted. We should love and respect things as if they were ourselves.

America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday. I hope you're doing something.'

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

Cheap meat is the problem. The answer is to replace meat recipes with vegan meals.

A New York doctor has finished a five year study on what smells have the biggest effect on New Yorkers. The smell New Yorkers like the most: vanilla. The smell New Yorkers like the least: New Jersey.

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.

No, not Jove Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love.

I've always loved drama. This is a blessing because I can show a little bit of what I can do, and hopefully more, in the future.

Tom Jones is like igloo-cool.