This is life. It is everywhere, and it is here for the taking. I am alive and I know this, now, in a more profound way than when I am doing anything else. These sights are ephemeral, fleeting treasures that have been offered to me and to me alone. No other person in the history of the world, anywhere in all of time and space, has been granted this gift to be here in my place. And I am privileged, through the camera, to take this moment away with me. That is why I photograph.

...the subject, the thing itself, is the genesis of all types of photography.

Advice to artists: always take the opportunity to shut up.

Discussions allow photographers to shuffle their prejudices

I appreciate photographs which celebrate harmony. I don't particularly want to look at chaos. I see enough of that at home.

Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese.

A few photographers make a killing; the rest can't make a living.