I have to say, taking photographs is such an instantaneous act. The recognition and the acting on the recognition, depending on your equipment, is close to instantaneous.

You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there.

Making any statement of your feelings is risky. It's just like making pictures.

Photography is about being exquisitely present.

A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale and say 'Wow!'

[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation.

Attempts by some teachers to adjust school curricula to incorporate programs that children watch on television suggest a new means of 'leading' children by running after them as quickly as possible.

Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going to make these pictures. We need a record.

Someone who lives meaningfully for 30 years has lived a much longer Life than one who drifted through Life for 60 years.-RVM

We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally.

The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.

At the beginning, all we have is the vision. At that point God expects us to begin walking in obedience according to the dream He has given us.

Baldness is visually enough of a stigma as it is without a big sweaty bloke on stage pointing it out.

There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.

[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that's a glaring form of stupidity.

Nobody wants to stand behind a parked car. You got to always follow somebody who keeps it moving.

Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.