Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.

To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

Because we see reality in different ways, we must understand that we are looking at different truths rather than the truth and that, therefore, all photographs lie in one way or another.

Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere.

It isn't what a picture is of, it is what it is about.

The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.

The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive.

The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.

What's happening is that people are making a billion photographs a year of their cats, frequently with the cats wearing costumes. Do you think I should be doing shows of cat photography?

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

Hey, I wasn’t a weirdo. I was in the audio-visual club.

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

Do not offend devotees or even non-devotees. Because all those whom we know as devotees today were once not devotees.

Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

A major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists.

I have great players around me. I have a great coach talking to me all the time, constantly teaching me. I feel reborn, like I'm learning every day. When I show up, I'm happy.

The world wants to be cheated. So cheat.

Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result