I don't really have any faith in anybody enjoying photographs in a large enough sense to matter. I think it's all about finances, on one side.

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

How far should a person go in the name of true love?

Dreamers have a territorial seed in them that give them the power to possess, to dominate and to influence the world.

Life is what you allow yourself not to see.

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.

Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.

It's kind of the Washington, D.C., chattering class. They kind of talk amongst themselves.

An unwatched pot boils immediately.

First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little.

I've worked so hard to keep this family together.

Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.