What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you.

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

I didn't want to be a woman photographer. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera.

What do you hang on the walls of your mind?

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.

I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.

I want to live my life in such a way that it colors my things with memories.

Ignorance is the worst liberation. To know even a few is better than knowing nothing at all.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Fear less hope more eat less chew more whine less breathe more talk less say more love more and all good things will be yours.

I literally change my phone number 10 times a year and I don't ever save my contacts.

I have eaten very well in Los Angeles. Marvelously!

Agent Jones held Sinjin’s face in his hands. “I’m going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals.” “How right you are, strange delusional man,” Sinjin said.

Nobody ever cares what I say! I feel badly about it, I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

I love to go shopping and see what catches my eye.

The Web is trivially simple - massively successful and its like Karaoke - anybody can do it.