It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.

I couldn’t even tell if I had any sadness of my own, because I was so full of Abuelita’s sadness.

Fear is a prison where you are the jailer. Free yourself!

Home was not the place where you were born but the place you created yourself, where you did not need to explain, where you finally became what you were.

Ours is a youth culture, and like a golf tournament, we honor only low scores.

I'm most connected to myself when I'm alone in a room, moving my hand across a page. That's when I feel most like me.

Stupidity is sufficient unto itself. Wisdom can never learn enough.

I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.

The people are fed up with corruption and embezzlement. They object to censorship. The first thing that the people of Iran want is free elections.

Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.

After finishing the work I start rearranging the parts again and eventually start to work with themes - images and thoughts and things.