The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.

There's a difference between preferring books to parties and preferring sixteen cats to seeing the light of day.

The French know the intrinsic value of holding on to the past, its pleasures, its promises, and its tender mercies.

Don't you understand brother? I want to find a love...that will free me from this love...

I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable

Too much of anything can make you sick, even the good can be a curse - Cheryl Cole

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.

Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.

It is because of their tranquil thoughts That creatures go to prosperity.

Lives devoted to Beauty seldom end well.

Clearly, everybody knows I can rap; I can freestyle all day.