...a photographer must be aware of and concerned about the words that accompany a picture. These words should be considered as carefully as the lighting, exposure and composition of the photograph.

Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.

It is a rare photographer who can take a detached, cold-blooded view of his work.

In conclusion, the idea of direction on the part of the photographer has its greatest value when its processes are least discernible to the spectator.

I photographed Arthur Coble and his sons Milton and Darrel as they did chores, but the vicious winds made it difficult to see and breathe.

It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality.

Look for the failures in your successes and the successes in your failures.

I don't want this heart, it's split in two.

You're staring, " Lana said."Yes. I am. I'm a teenage boy. Beautiful girls in wet underwear have a tendency to cause staring in teenage boys.

I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.

I feel that success is the best revenge in this world.

I want a Supreme Court that understands because you're wealthy and you can give more money to something doesn't mean you have any more rights or should have any more rights than anybody else.

I get the worst compliments all the time. 'Oh you're Asian? I love orange chicken.'

Expressed gratitude encourages further giving; ingratitude drains vitality out of the spirit of generosity.

While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.

Like I say, I don't think it'll be done perfectly. Maybe we'll end up with a little bit better [economy] system.