For me, at least, studying my subjects first and knowing them personally was essential to taking a good picture.

When you do not like human beings, you cannot make good portraits.

...in the theatre the stage keeps the audience aware of the fictional nature of the action. The reader poring over a magazine, on the other hand, identifies what he sees in the photographs as real.

So not every person fits into the little rooms we build to hold them. There are infinite combinations of human and inhuman, male and female, brown and white.

If I thought the Lord was speaking to me I'd check myself into Bellevue, and I think you should too.

Napoleon didn't take Moscow, the Nazis got within 21 miles in 1943, but in a war of a different kind, Team Canada conquered Moscow.

If you are not able to be silent, you will not be able to speak well.

Someone else's loss is my chocolatey goodness

Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.

The world is full of nice people. If you cant find one, be one.

Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men. [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae, Noctis habent.]

Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom.

There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness.