This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.

If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.

Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.

The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?

Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.

I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.

Let's start a new tomorrow, today.

And once you've been to this Center, this Truth, you'll know your way everywhere. You are never lost again.

You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy.

Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.

Divorces led to bodies of men (called legislatures) protecting women collectively as other men (called husbands) failed to protect women individually.

The infant is ten and he stays.