It's the not the subject that interests me as much as my perception of the subject.

I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer that determines whether it's right or wrong.

You should be able to look at me and see my work. You should be able to look at my work and see me.

But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.

There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it.

My photographs are subjective and personal-they’r e intended to be accessible, to relate to people’s lives... People-their well-being and survival-are the crux of what’s important to me.

A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for its life, its reason for being.

Artists are a very important part of our society because they make a great contribution to our values. The artist creates a value system that we all grow up on, whether we know it or not.

For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological.

Seeing your work on the wall is like the ultimate thing that can happen.

The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.

She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims.

I've never met a very memorable cobbler.

There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.

If you go into a battle, it's better to win the first time.

Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike.

I think that age is irrelevant. We're all pretty much spiritual beings - I consider myself to be about eighty-five. I feel like I'm ancient, like two thousand years old.

Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.

Marriage to me means unity, it means strength because I believe that both people can be stronger in their calling because of each other.

Son, feelings are what women have. They come from their ovaries.

Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.