To be a photographer you must have something to say about the world.

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger.

If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.

No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you print it, you cannot say more than you can see.

The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world.

All good art is abstract in its structure.

I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of research into and reporting on the life of my own time.

Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation

To be wise, know yourself.

Spare no expense when the investment is thyself.

The corruption of religious leaders, who were expected to be the source of spiritual force and regeneration, is the last step in the of decay of a community.

Celebrity nowadays is so fleeting. You really have to have a legitimate talent to back it up.

Twitter is more a cultural than a technological change.

I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.

And whenever you feel that essence in another, you also feel it in yourself.

Are people so unhappy when they love?" "Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.

Every human being has creative powers. You were born to create. Appreciate your inborn potential.

I tried to put a bird in a cage. O fool that I am! For the bird was Truth. Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put Truth in a cage!