“You cannot depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus.”

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see”

“If your photos aren’t good enough, then you’re not close enough”

“All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget.  In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.  Paintings record what the painter remembers.  Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.”

“One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style. “

“Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.”

“The negative is the equivalent of the composer’s score, and the print the performance.”

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

“I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.”

“Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.”

“It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.”

“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.”

“I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field.”

“It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.”

“There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.”

“If I have any ‘message’ worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.”

“When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls!”

“It’s weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don’t even amount to a couple of hours.”

“No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.”

“You don’t take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it.”

“Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter. “

“Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.”

“Photography helps people to see”

“Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film.”