No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

A lake that is noisy cannot reflect anything

Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as it should. There are no mistakes anywhere, at any time. What appears to be wrong is simply your own false imagination. That's all.

The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest in him. If pictures cannot be understood without knowing details of the artist's private life, then that is a reason for faulting them; major art, by definition, can stand independent of its maker.

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

The only freedom we've got is not to react to anything, but to turn within and know the truth.

My first show at MoMA in New York was pictures of new developments along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. They were housing developments that were brutal in many ways, that cared almost not a thing for the human beings inside. They were just designed to make money.