A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations.
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.
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.
Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them.
In Burma, economic engagement enriches the regime, as the economy is controlled by the regime. Economic engagement benefits this elite, not ordinary people. The money is spent on the military, stolen by the elite.
Christ was crucified by the Jews who had wanted a temporal ruler to rescue them from the oppressive Roman authorities. Instead God sent them a spiritual leader to rescue them from their sins. . . . He was not what the Jews had expected so they considered Him a threat. Thus He was put to death.
If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.