A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.
The camera is the least important element in photography.
I sell architecture better and more directly and more vividly than the architect does. . . The average architect is stupid. He doesn't know how to sell. He's not a merchandiser. He doesn't know how to express his own image. He doesn't know how to create a design of his image. . . And I do it. I've done it all my career over half a century, and it gets better.
The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations.
I'm not modest about myself. I know for a fact that I am good. But good in the sense that I can put things together. I expound vociferously to students of architecture and photography, the significance of design. A photograph is a design in which you assemble thoughts in your mind.
What good is a dream house if you haven't got a dream?
And I was very successful at baby photography. . . Strange isn't it? Because some of my portraits of babies were - I used dramatic lighting, shadow lighting, and I didn't use flash. We didn't have flash in those days, we just had floodlights, and I was photographing babies as I would an object - an inanimate object, for that matter.
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
In the gospel of Jesus Christ, there is no place for ridicule, bullying, or bigotry.
In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.
Thank you. . . for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.