Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings.

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.

Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men.

I'm an expert on one-armed Herdazian jokes. 'Lopen, ' my mother always says, 'you must learn these to laugh before others do. Then you steal the laughter from them, and have it all for yourself.

And in the end, really, there's nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe "Oh.

It's not the content, but the form of thought that counts.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one.

We have a saying that a stranger's soul is like a black box. Which is why I would not want to analyze [Vladimir] Putin's psychological motivations.

Precision is not reality

There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.

We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.