There's an arbitrary idea that the horizontal edge in a frame has to be the point of reference.

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

Your first goal should be to receive grace and anointing and then spread it to others

Our terminal decline into old age and death stems from the fine print of the contract that we signed with our mitochondria two billion years ago.

I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.

At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead.

Etc. is a perfect word-when you can't think of the right one.

Heath [Ledger] was always somebody who I admired.He was way beyond his years as a human, in a way.

Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.

Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.

When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.