To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia.

One of these days, I'm going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take.

What counts is putting the intensity that you yourself have experienced into the picture. Otherwise it is just a document.

A photograph is a moment when you press the button. It will never come back.

On digital photography: It's fantastic, but it's not a freebie for anything. You still have to have this (he points to his eyes), and this (points to his heart), and feet.

A digital camera has to be kept in check like a racehorse.

I never thought I would become a photographer.

I think that's the strength of photography - to decide the decisive moment, to click in the moment to come up with a picture that never comes back again.

Looking back, I didn't have the patience to work in fashion. I like women so much, but I was never qualified to torture them in photo shoots. You have to be really tough and brutal.

What you want is within reach. Go for it.

The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King yet they have been very badly treated by his people.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

Life is lived on its ownother's shoulders are used only at the time of funeral.

Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.

Any human being exists only as a member of the wider community of life, air, water, and soil. We have no existence apart from the living earth. We are Earth. What we do to Earth, we do to our self.

An Airedale can do anything any other dog can do and then whip the other dog if he has to.

I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.