In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.

It takes me a long time to change. I don't think you can just go out and figure out a bunch of visual ideas and photograph. The change happens in living and not through thinking.

I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.

A man's got to know his limitations.

What, Rudolph wasn’t available?

...Mom equated money with affection...but I never cared about the money. I just wanted her to be healthy.

I remember you with my soul clenched in that sadness of mine that you know.

Ah, but you must have a Christmas uncomplicated by murder.

An odd thing souvenir-hunting: now becomes then even while it is still now.

I might not be in a relationship anymore, but I don't believe that people should have to lie to themselves just to make somebody else feel good.

Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Don't eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce.

Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.