What matters most is that each picture stands on its own with its own place and feeling.

If you wait, people will forget your camera, and the soul will drift up into view.

A picture can express a universal humanism, or simply reveal a delicate and poignant truth by exposing a slice of life that might otherwise pass unnoticed.

Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a persons face.

If you want to be a photographer, first leave home

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

The definition of a great picture is one that stays with you, one that you can't forget. It doesn't have to be technically good at all.

Some of the great pictures happen along the journey and not necessarily at your destination.

I strive for individual pictures that will burn in people's memories.

I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in.

The photograph is an undeniably powerful medium. Free from the constraints of language, and harnessing the unique qualities of a single moment frozen in time.

He dusted off the shoulder tab and stared at it, so light in his hand, so inconsequential. It was hard to believe that a shred of cloth could have so much destructive power locked away in it.

...never be disappointing - you may wound me, but you must never be disappointing...

Envy eats nothing but its own heart.

Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.

My husband and I are pretty good at leaving money alone until we need it for what we've saved it for.

I really hope my peers appreciate and respect what I'm doing.

I assume then, that you have no real faith in the fondness any of the rest of us may feel for you?''None,' said Mrs. Halloran.

Everyone is a customer for somebody, or a supplier to somebody.

The earth itself is their church; the vast, open sky its ceiling.

I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.