For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological.

I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer that determines whether it's right or wrong.

You should be able to look at me and see my work. You should be able to look at my work and see me.

But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.

There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it.

My photographs are subjective and personal-they’r e intended to be accessible, to relate to people’s lives... People-their well-being and survival-are the crux of what’s important to me.

A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for its life, its reason for being.

Artists are a very important part of our society because they make a great contribution to our values. The artist creates a value system that we all grow up on, whether we know it or not.

Seeing your work on the wall is like the ultimate thing that can happen.

The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.

The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.

Expressing doubt is how we begin a journey to discover essential truths.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

Golf was my life. I didn't want to give it up. So I went to work!

Those who wash regularly should not stoop to democracy.

If a man's thoughts are muddy, If he is reckless and full of deceit, How can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever is master of his own nature, Bright, clear and true, He may indeed wear the yellow robe.

If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.

Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.

If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.

There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on "The Simpsons". See, there's "The Simpsons", and then there's everything else.