The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

Love and loyalty run deeper than blood

I want a chance to do it all again. To do it… right.

The need is necessary.

Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.

We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.

If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.

As a whole, I am interested in the symbolic, rather than the literal use of the camera.

All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.

I think I lead a really real life.

The nine inches right here; set it straight and you can beat anybody in the world.