I never think of myself as an artist. I think of myself as making a point.

You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.

I have an abiding faith in the fact that time will change the value of photographs. What you see today may be so familiar to everyone that they don't immediately appreciate or value it.

You have to bring to the photograph a prejudice about something, and I'm prejudiced against farmers who tie dead animals on fences. Therefore, I can make a meaningful photograph.

So many people are diverted to doing what people want photographed - fashion models, buildings, mountains - they get to thinking those photographs are good.

Edward [Weston] was the first artist - and I don't use the word lightly - to make a living doing art photography. Other photographers did commercial work, or worked for the government.

We cannot fight against the poverty and hunger in the world

A good story or a book is all about it's power to hold it's readers still till the very last word of it's climax - complexity in language, dialogues, descriptions, everything else is secondary!

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Let it be your business every day in the secrecy of the inner chamber to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.

Get all the crap out of your diet, just do it right for a week. Then just see what can happen.

I've always considered myself a physical person. I don't call myself a farm girl, but I did spend a lot of years shoveling manure and throwing hay, because I worked to pay most of my riding expenses.

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

Live your life, experience something, and then you're going to have a lot of things to say. But if you hang around in Hollywood, then you're going to say the same thing as everyone else - nothing.

You can't give it to others if you don't have it in yourself.

Our way of life, our government defines the way America is. I mean, it's not luck.