There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

The mind is an empire unto itself.

The aspiration to attain goals overcomes death

most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road.

One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song. No one's ever called me to do that.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

You have to understand the process of healing in the Age of Aquarius. What will give the healing is the flow of your soul energy.

Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.

Find me any performer anywhere who isn't egocentric. You'd better believe you're good, or you've got no business being out there.

If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people dying of violence or stray bullets.

The language of science—and especially of a science of man—is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity.