Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it.

Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.

All films are born free and equal.

[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reproduction; it is the model.

The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.

When it comes to your talent, translate the intangible into the tangible.

All you can try to do is be better than you were yesterday, everyday.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

You know you're a success when people tell you, “I like me best when I'm with you.”

Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.

...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

Gold and Silver have always had value, never gone to zero. Can you say the same for stocks and bonds?

When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.

Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.

I'm not really a Facebook fan because I don't know how to use it! It's so complicated! You gotta accept your friends one by one! It's just like too much going on. I tried it though.