When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.

Nothing succeeds like indifference to success.

love yourself first, and you will always be in love.

The devil can be a clown of prizes in moments like these. Moments of knowing you’ve ventured too far down the wrong path and all you can do is accept more prizes ...

When I feel too much and the universe aches inside of me.

We will embarrass our descendants, just as our ancestors embarrass us. This is moral progress.

The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.

I think probably I'm quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I'm very embarrassed by sentiment. I'm very embarrassed by corniness.

Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.

A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts you on hold.

Always stay true to yourselves.