The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even the style can turn one into a slave if one does not run away from it, and then one is doomed to repeat oneself.

Good photos have come when I least controlled the situation.

Don't be afraid to take bad pictures, because good pictures are the mistakes of bad pictures.

Surprise, unpredictability: these are the main materials of creativity.

The feeling before and after the event is very important. There are things happening before and after the event. These things are even more important than the event itself.

It is said "Barking dogs seldom bite".......Unfortunately many dogs do not know this proverb!

...this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath...

To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.

So a maiden, whilst she remains untouched, so long is she dear to her own; when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.

I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.

When you could get angry with someone and separate yourself from them, don't do that. If you have people who are difficult to deal with, be neither attracted nor repulsed. Go a step higher.

We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

My advice for an entrepreneur just starting out is to differentiate yourself. Why are you different? What’s important about you? Why does the customer need you?

Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable.

The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.