There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.
It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera
The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with the people you photograph.
More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of colour, language, culture and opportunities, but people's feelings and reactions are alike. People flee wars to escape death, they migrate to improve their fortunes, they build new lives in foreign lands, they adapt to extreme hardship….
The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.
In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.
Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.
I remember when I was very little my idol was Britney Spears. I had just come to California and that's just who I wanted to meet. So I was in a store and she walked in and my jaw just fell to the floor. I started like sweating. I could not believe that I was meeting her. She told me that I was very cute. And I lost it — I was so excited.
Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands.
My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.