Pure photography is a system of picture-making that describes more or less faithfully what might be seen through a rectangular frame from a particular vantage point at a given moment.

To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

Because we see reality in different ways, we must understand that we are looking at different truths rather than the truth and that, therefore, all photographs lie in one way or another.

Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere.

It isn't what a picture is of, it is what it is about.

The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.

The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive.

The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.

What's happening is that people are making a billion photographs a year of their cats, frequently with the cats wearing costumes. Do you think I should be doing shows of cat photography?

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

No prince, no success filled her dreams: only time spread out before her to spend as she chose, a time of contemplation which offered her refuge.

Looks like it's time to liven up this dead little town!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug)

She can push me away all she wants, she can burn me with those eyes, but right now, I’m not going anywhere.

Every time you say it is impossible, you shoot yourself in the foot

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

Every climb is different, has its own unique set of movements and body positions. Climbing and my appreciation for nature are totally intertwined.

Mrs Cameron keeps a rather better weekend diary than I do.

Home cooking. Where many a man thinks his wife is.

In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not there if you want to keep writing good code.

I still haven't played a leading role in cinema or in TV, and that's something that I long for.