I never prepare a speech. I never think when I give a speech, except for "don't embarrass yourself or others," meaning "remember the names of the people you have to thank."

Nothing is staged. And nothing is already there. Everything is transformed through the camera.

It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and the imaginative.

In the end, I believe that the most important influence on my aesthetic has been the photographs I have taken.

I never think about a photo before I start it. I try to let my mind relax, and then when I get there I do it.

My best Pictures are the ones I don’t understand.

When you go searching, you never know what you will find.

If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist.

[My] goal as an artist is to create increasingly complex images with greater and greater clarity of form and intensity of vision.

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

I believe people change and life tends them to.

Banality is a terribly likely consequence of the underuse of a good mind.

Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.

As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree, and the locusts sang off in the distance.

We've all got troubles. We all make mistakes. But let's not take a little river turn it into lake.

I may have been a Wayward, but my way was full of people who loved me. They were the only way I knew

The ultimate design is little different from the natural world.

Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.

Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people.