Teaching has never been far from my life. It's the most natural thing I do. Apparently, as I said, I cannot not do it.

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make.

Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.

A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.

Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.

For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.

Can man direct his course?

True communication is communion- the realization of oneness, which is love.

Questions would be asked. Answers would be ignored.

If democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it.

Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?

Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

Everything I touch turns to gold.

It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film" in disguise.

The icy precepts of respect.