To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.

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.

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

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.

Love is the music of the heart, which you can feel but can't hear.

a person can also find solitude with others, though it is more difficult

Men pass away, but their deeds abide. [His last words.]

I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.

I believe both parties are sending the wrong kind of people to Washington, D.C.

Once you reach what is / inside it is outside.

Wit is the key, I think, to anybody's heart, because who doesn't like to laugh?

I usually just wear black so my shoes and my socks are my rays of sunshine.

I can get pissed off very easily.

How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?