Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make.

A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.

Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.

For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.

Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.

Don't let the mist of circumstances block your imagination and stop you from making new beginnings.

If Jesus didn't do it, don't say the Father does. If Jesus did do it, don't say the Father doesn't.

The tongue of man is a twisty thing.

It was the call of workers who organized

In fairness, you know, I'm a big believer in if your kid makes noise in the restaurant you should remove the child immediately.

If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree.

We loved that form of music. We're all huge rap fans, so we just incorporated it.

A President doesn't have a terribly long time to talk to people who are not really on the agenda.

Women are rising. It's going to get harder before it gets easier, but we can do it if we realize that we have the power. Women will always be the leaders of change.

In the long vista of the years to roll,\\ Let me not see my country's honor fade;\\ Oh! let me see our land retain its soul!\\ Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade.