Edward [Weston] was the first artist - and I don't use the word lightly - to make a living doing art photography. Other photographers did commercial work, or worked for the government.

You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.

I never think of myself as an artist. I think of myself as making a point.

I have an abiding faith in the fact that time will change the value of photographs. What you see today may be so familiar to everyone that they don't immediately appreciate or value it.

You have to bring to the photograph a prejudice about something, and I'm prejudiced against farmers who tie dead animals on fences. Therefore, I can make a meaningful photograph.

So many people are diverted to doing what people want photographed - fashion models, buildings, mountains - they get to thinking those photographs are good.

..why sit on the sidelines of life at any age?

If she’s gonna love again, it won’t be an eternity but a hard, fast conflagration that leaves everyone else in the embers.

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.

Dark money has turned our elections into auctions

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

I think I can fix the problems in Washington that people desperately want to see fixed.

Some of these people need ten years of therapy - ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.

Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.

I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.