Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.

I see pictures all the time. I could stay for hours and watch a raindrop.

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating or breathing.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.

Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!

I seldom think when I take a picture. My eyes and fingers react - click. But first, it's most important to decide on the angle at which your photograph is to be taken.

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

I always prefer photographing in available light – or Rembrandt-light I like to call it – so you get the natural modulations of the face. It makes a more alive, real, and flattering portrait.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

Being rejected is not the end of your life, it's a means to an end for your life. And that end is your destiny.

...if you stood at the other end of the universe seeking resolution you would just end up feeling like an idiot for trying.

When I think over what I have said I envy dumb people.

What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.

The press is dishonest, but the political press is especially dishonest.

Life is challenging for everyone. If someone can believe that he's a sovereign in his tiny domain, it's just an adaptation to life.

Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere.