Every photograph could be set up. If one could imagine it, one could set it up. The whole discussion is a way of not talking about photographs.

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

Some people said beware of enemies. Some said beware of friends and some said beware of frenemies, but the most dangerous people are those that will hurt you and still play the victim.

A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.

Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

When you're through with your cat, you can't throw it in the trash.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Writers don’t care what they eat. They just care what you think of them

I think this is what we must not lose sight of, present a confident, positive and optimistic platform for our country's future in which this Party appeals to the centre ground of British politics.

I think President Obama has done more than he is given credit for.

It seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough.