Everything is one and I am one with it.

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.

If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

Fall in love. Every day. With everything. With life. If you can fall in love, you can be a photographer. I think that is absolutely essential.

If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

Woman has been the target of much that is sordid and cheap, especially in photography. To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the image of woman, has been my mission.

A person cannot learn to be a photographer. He can only cultivate what he already has. I try to make people aware that they have something very precious to cultivate.

If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning

There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.

I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time" so I ordered French toast during the Renaissance.

Always wanting another man than your own.

My success has been as full of luck as a crapshooter's dream.

A classical liberal is someone who wants a society that maximizes peace, civility, tolerance, and well-being for everyone. One that opens opportunities for everyone to advance themselves.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

My time in prison only deepened my resolve against apartheid. Even while I was in prison, I fought against it, teaching my cellmates about white supremacy and how to fight against it.

Swifter, higher, stronger.

In excess altercation, truth is lost.

The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.