The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.

Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.

In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music and to paint when I feel like it.

I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.

There are the things that are out in the open and then there are the things that are hidden, and life has more to do, the real world has more to do with what is hidden, maybe. You think?

The important thing in life is not what you get, but what you throw out.

Seeing is a neglected enterprise.

I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera.

When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it, all of a sudden we discover something that we start seeing. I like this confusion.

If I’d only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn’t have had to do all the thousands of others.

In order to deceive others, you must first deceive yourself.

I hate not understanding the words, because it kind of squashes the song. It shrinks the visual landscape that you've made for the sounds. And, all of a sudden, the content eclipses things.

It's no fun being a specimen.

Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell.

I was only seven but I remember thinking that everything in the world was standing still.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

So many nurses had turned into emotionally disturbed handmaidens of the war, in their yellow-and-crimson uniforms with bone buttons.

Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?

If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.