Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I quit talking.

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.

It takes me a long time to change. I don't think you can just go out and figure out a bunch of visual ideas and photograph. The change happens in living and not through thinking.

I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.

A man's got to know his limitations.

Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.

Stop reacting to the stereotypes and start responding to the individual.

The human skin evolved in a natural electromagnetic radiation environment and is now in a very unnatural man-made one that is making many people sick.

For when success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.

To love is to believe, to hope, to know; 'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!

The new Haitian baseball can't weigh more than four ounces or less than five.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Being the middle child, I couldn't figure out where I fit in the home. I couldn't figure out whether I was the youngest of the older three or the oldest of the younger three.