The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time.

Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!

I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.

A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.

Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.

And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.

No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph.

I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.

Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others.

In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.

Smartass Disciple: Master, where will you go after your soul leaves your body?Master of Stupidity: What makes you think a soul will go elsewhere physically?

I love that I have my own business and I can't wait to tell Charlie when she's old enough that I did it all with her as my inspiration.-Carla Palmer, Cheekie Charlie

Seems like we own the day! Now die like a good Christ!- Boniface de Monteferret, ON THE WALLS OF CHRISTAs Constantinople falls.

Wisdom is the ability to use divine reaction to solve human problems.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

You were dead.' She said. 'And in the whole world there was nothing beautiful left.

I get really fantastic results when I just get out of my own way.

A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.

I never thought I was funny. I don't THINK funny.

There is an intimate laughter to be found only among friends