Making any statement of your feelings is risky. It's just like making pictures.

You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there.

Photography is about being exquisitely present.

A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale and say 'Wow!'

I have to say, taking photographs is such an instantaneous act. The recognition and the acting on the recognition, depending on your equipment, is close to instantaneous.

[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation.

Attempts by some teachers to adjust school curricula to incorporate programs that children watch on television suggest a new means of 'leading' children by running after them as quickly as possible.

Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going to make these pictures. We need a record.

Why should people pay good money to go out and see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Now, I've gotten to the point in my career, I'm 13 years in, to where I know that I'm funny. I know that I'm good at this.

Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed my instincts.

All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust.

I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

It's got big riffs and really it's a rock and roll album. I think Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver fans will relate to that