The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest.
You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.
Ansel [Adams] always jumped over the fence to photograph, walked past the garbage. He always looked to get an immaculate view, and I spent my life stepping back to include the garbage in my photographic view.
You have to bring to the photograph a prejudice about something, and I'm prejudiced against farmers who tie dead animals on fences. Therefore, I can make a meaningful photograph.
So many people are diverted to doing what people want photographed - fashion models, buildings, mountains - they get to thinking those photographs are good.
I never think of myself as an artist. I think of myself as making a point.
I have an abiding faith in the fact that time will change the value of photographs. What you see today may be so familiar to everyone that they don't immediately appreciate or value it.
To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth. . . these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.
Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.
The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.
Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.