If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

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

I wish you a great grace to fulfill your dreams in the New Year.

To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.

I didn't see life through your eyes. Sure, we have a different set of sight.

I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw 'Wicked, ' it made me feel really cool for being different... and you can carve that in stone!

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in microcosms, or narrow channels.

I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

One of the lessons of history is that even the deepest crises can be moments of opportunity. They bring ideas from the margins into the mainstream.

What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.

It's not willing to settle for anything less than success.