Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.

The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.

Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.

The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.

The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Good photography is unpretentious.

That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.

It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.

I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.

Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.

The end for which Christ lives, and for which He has left His church in the world, is the salvation of sinners.

God will not be absent when His people are on trial; he will stand in court as their advocate, to plead on their behalf.

We're phenomenally blessed in the Walla Walla Valley. We have great, complex soil that's nutrient-rich but fairly porous.

Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.

The other day I got invited to a party, but I stayed home instead. Just me and my pal Johnny Walker and his brothers Black and Red.

A circus of stars, your dreams a trapeze, faces lift like mirrored moons.

The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious.

I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that includes me.

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.