“Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.”

I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.

We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…

Ask yourself, ‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?’ Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

Some photographers take reality and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Being a leader, it’s the art of trying to find the balance, the right times with each individual and what they need at that moment. It requires looking outward as opposed to looking inside.

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.