I am at war with the obvious.

Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.

I don't think about what camera I should use that much. I just pick up the one that looks nicest on the day.

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.

I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. So then that picture is taken and then the next one is waiting somewhere else.

Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with each other.

We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)

There is no particular reason to search for meaning.

It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.

Photography just gets us out of the house.

You can take a good picture of anything. A bad one, too.

ligion is the opiate of the masses." "I did masses of opiates religiously.

Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

The rinsed foam swirled into one drain that always clogged come October when the maples dropped Canadian propaganda over everything.

The poetry is myself.

Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.

Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances.

There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children.

Freedom from discrimination for women, ensuring that female children can learn to read, these are human needs for half the human race, not western values.

Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and less like logic.

The key thing about any fund is to make sure its expenses are low. You know, if you look at the funds in your plan and you see that they're all charging 1.5 and 2 percent,you've gota bad plan.