It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.

Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need to. If the thing is true, why there it is.

I never took it upon myself to change the world. And those contemporaries of mine who were going around falling for the idea that they were going to bring down the United States government and make a new world were just asses to me.

... nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of it?'

Nobody should touch a Polaroid [camera] until he's over sixty

It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.