If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger.

No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you print it, you cannot say more than you can see.

The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world.

All good art is abstract in its structure.

I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of research into and reporting on the life of my own time.

Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation

I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn’t destroyed them.

Athos was delighted to find he was going to fight an Englishman. We might say that was his dream.

So Captain Faith conducted the prince and his mighty captains and men of war into the castle in the very heart of Mansoul. Prince Emmanuel had come home.

Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

I don't have the body for this," I quipped, lifting my chin to a voluptous woman nearby who shook her hips zealously to the beat. "No curves." Jev's eyes held mine. "Are you asking my opinion?

People don't forget. Nothing gets forgiven.

Onions make me sad. A lot of people don't realize that.

It's utterly hypocritical for Israelis to wonder aloud why Palestinians don't pursue a non-violent strategy. One obvious reason is that, whenever they have, Israel brutally represses it.

I do my very best to not allow external trends or zeitgeists to feed into what I'm producing.

Los Angeles is the evolutionary edge.