The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
For the recuperation of body and mind, there is nothing better than natural therapy - sand, sunshine and surf.
I've always believed a great photographer should concentrate more on depth of feeling and less on depth of field.
Modern photography must do more than entertain, it must incite thought and by its clear statements of actuality, cultivate a sympathetic understanding of men and women and the life they live and create.
Subject matter comes to you, you don't go to it. . . Although I shoot extemporaneously a lot of the time, I prefer to have half a dozen shots in my mind. Probably I have seen them many times under different conditions and I have been thinking about them. The moment shall come when I shall go back to them and make the photographs.
Dealing with architecture brings me very close to the state of mind required to make pictures. One also needs an old seeing eye, appropriate reflexes which embrace sensitive observations coupled with appropriate emotional responses.
We usually can't know how, and we probably should not even ask, how our lives contribute to a better world.
We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
I play golf - even though I'm awful at it.
Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe.