Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past.

You are responsible for every element within the frame.

As long as we’re alive and interacting with life, the world, and the people around us, we’ll have something to say.

A photograph can communicate a couple things— and sometimes only one thing—very well. The more you try to say with your photograph, the greater the chance that you will say nothing at all.

The cliché comes not in what you shoot but in how you shoot it.

A representational photograph says, 'This is what Vienna looked like.' An interpretational photograph goes one better and says, 'This is what Vienna was like. This is how I felt about it.

If you want to live in abundance, work towards it one day at a time.

You may think you will never get caught for your wrongdoing, but be assured that you will be imprisoned by your wrongdoing.

Life is painting a picture not doing a sum.

As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world.

There is a very small chance that you might be really brilliant and really talented.

So if you serve a whole chicken to your family like grandma did, you may be serving them 10 times as much fat than the days of yesteryear. That's a whole lotta fat, and big trouble for the waistline.

When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy.

Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.