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.

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.

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.

The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.

We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.

First we build the tools, then they build us.

I don't gamble at all, all my life. I am only interested in sports.

A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.

It is a lot harder to keep people well than it is to just get them over a sickness. Take care of yourself.

I'm glad you asked. It has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil.

The very first temptation in the history of mankind was the temptation to be discontent...that is exactly what discontent(ment ) is - a questioning of the goodness of God.

There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.

The pen is mightier than the sword ... if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

This is no time to make new enemies.