Your Favourite Quote

Be humble and prudent before opening your mouth, but once you open it, be dignified and proud.

What you mostly do is absorb the personality of the man you are working with. The personality of the photographer, his approach, is really more important than his technical genius. All photographers work with the same means - cameras and lights. The thing that makes one man's work finer than the others is his honesty, his sincerity.

Where one burns books, one will, in the end, burn people.

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do."

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

Oh, Sherlock, what do we say about coincidences?" "The universe is rarely so lazy.

The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

A candle as it diminishes explains, Gathering more and more is not the way. Burn, become light and heat and help.

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Sometimes you can spend too much time on a one-sided love.

... the most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.

Who cares about pretty? I'm going for noticeable.

I've been in many underground mines and I always say that photography is like going down into the mineshaft. Each day I hope to go the next level down. But it's one thing to get down; it's another thing to bring to the surface what you find down there.

The realisation that life is absurd cannot be an end; only a beginning.

I don't believe in types, I believe in people.