I'm living in Los Angeles for a couple of years. I've been a gypsy for quite a while. It'll come to an end. I'm going to come back to New York.

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

The ladder of success is there waiting for you... you just have to realize it and reach towards and climb as high as you can you will surely be successful.

A person can put up any kind of protective wall, but love and truth always find a way around it.

The condition of our soul is usually the source of many sicknesses.

I think if you look back at my projections and my prognostications, they turn out to be very, very accurate.

No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.

This thing called thinking, just as you think of it, the more you think of it, the best thinking can be NOT to think of it.

Anytime someone says we're channelling 1960s, I'm like, I'm in, I love it.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.

The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you’ll be.