I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need to. If the thing is true, why there it is.

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.

The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.

Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.

The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.

The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Good photography is unpretentious.

That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.

It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.

A reputable person is he who has trust in his own Self. Self means who? “I am Pure Soul”, it is that Self.

Dreaming is good, but without taking actions, a dream is just hope.

A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.

And always the animals from each trip you bring back a gaze a pose a gesture that points to the truest of humanity better than images of humanity itself

Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.

Happy people make people happy, but I can’t make someone be happy, and no one else can make me happy.

There's no doubt we were unworthy, but we were never worthless. Big difference.

Habit is, of all the plants of human growth, the one that has the least need of nutritious soil in order to live, and is the first to appear on the most seemingly barren rock.

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

I am not interested in what a man can't do. I want to know what he CAN do.