The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as the pen.

The enemy of photography is the convention, the fixed rules of 'how to do'. The salvation of photography comes from the experiment.

Design is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function.

Designing is not a profession but an attitude... Thinking in relationships.

Design... is the integration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space.

The photogram, or camera-less record of forms produced by light, which embodies the unique nature of the photographic process, is the real key to photography.

The organization of light and shadow effects produce a new enrichment of vision.

The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function.

My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can convey the essence of life.

The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light.

Every period has its own optical focus.

And when demigods use cell phones, the signals agitate every monster within a hundred miles. It's like sending up a flare: Here I am! Please rearrange my face!

...once again I saw that incredulous question, that dawning hope: We are not alone, then? We have brothers in other places? We have friends we never knew?

A woman needs a man like a tuba needs a cucumber.

I was still searching for someone to blame for my suffering. I really wanted someone to transfer my hate to, so that I could stop hating myself.

I don't know what kind of courage it took thousands of years ago, but I know how courageous women need to be today.

Friends tell each other the truth, and then friends stick around for the aftermath.

Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.

There's a hunger beyond food that's expressed in food, and that's why feeding is always a kind of miracle.

I think if people looked at my body of work, they'd see a great breadth of work.