“Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.”

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.

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.

Everyone is different: different shapes, sizes, colors, beliefs, personalities, and you have to celebrate those differences.

Grace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.

If you betray yourself, you are no different from the people who hurt you. What’s the difference between those people who hurt you and what you are doing to yourself?

In general, we are sort of conditioned to see a different body type as acceptable and maybe look away when the other body type arrives.

My happy weight changes. Sometimes I eat more; sometimes I play more. I’ll be different sizes all the time.

Great innovation only happens when people aren’t afraid to do things differently.

I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether it’s art or music or clothing or food and all the rest. And I’d like to add a little to that goodness.

No matter who you are or what your life has been like so far, the rest of your life’s journey can be different. With God’s help you can begin again.