“I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.”

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Photographers are always imposing.

I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.

Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.

In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.

whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.

Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets, any sound investment will eventually pay off.

If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.

I am finding the courage to breathe as I am.

What good are wings without the courage to fly?

You gave me the courage to rise but my darling robin why did you fly leaving me behind these four walls all alone?

The art to breathe and smile despite the pressure of anxiety, takes courage and power, keep appreciating yourself.

It is an act of courage every time you create. Stay brave.

I’m not the fighter I used to be no courage left in me in my safe place and on my own I’m trying to build a home.