“My images were surreal simply in the sense that my vision brought out the fantastic dimension of reality.”

The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence

For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.

You see the dilemma?” Ham asked. “I see an idiot,” Breeze mumbled.

If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this: See the subject first. Do not try to force it to be a picture of this, that or the other thing. Stand apart from it. Then something will happen. The subject will reveal itself.

If you take your inspiration from nature, you don’t invent anything, because what you want to do is to interpret something.

When you’re older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

I’ve never known a lot of rich people. It’s not my bag.

The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

I think that it is by capturing reality in the humblest, most sincere, most everyday way I can, that I can penetrate to the extraordinary.

You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God’s creative principle works in you.

It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

Divorce becomes a holy moment when you choose to use it as a catalyst for having an extraordinary life.

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.