We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.

You are responsible for every part of your image, even the parts you’re not interested in.

Since the background is as important as the subject, you mustn't let it default by chance. You must control not only vertical and horizontal, you must be aware of the depth of field (or lack of it) that you want in the background.

Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content.

The awareness of the quality of space in out photos is akin to our awareness of the very air in our photos, the atmosphere that pervades every square inch of our image and yet is often invisible to the photographer.

Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.

Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.