Often I have struggled for days to get the image of the photograph to overlap the spirit I see. It is an awesome responsibility, and a lonely one.

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.

If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

Fall in love. Every day. With everything. With life. If you can fall in love, you can be a photographer. I think that is absolutely essential.

If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

Woman has been the target of much that is sordid and cheap, especially in photography. To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the image of woman, has been my mission.

A person cannot learn to be a photographer. He can only cultivate what he already has. I try to make people aware that they have something very precious to cultivate.

If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning

There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.

Everything was new, everything was exciting. We were playing house, it seemed, playing at being grownups. When you’re in love, I suppose everything feels like a game.

He's asleep in the harbor, disguised as dog shit.

It was all in the means of expressing himself without anyone having to ever understand it.

To live in books is cowardly---but people are not worth investigation.

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Change is one thing, progress is another.

Our first priority has to be getting our fiscal house in order - and creating an atmosphere for the private sector in job creation.

One question:do you want to hang ten or BE a ten?"-Massie Block

I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.