Quotes
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.
What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them.
These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.
There are an awful lot of people in the world and it's going to be terribly hard to photograph all of them... It was my teacher Lisette Model who finally made it clear to me that the more specific you are, the more general it will be.
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.