The sobbing of the weak today is the sobbing of the victims of neoliberal policies. They consist of billions of people all over the world.
You can't learn passion, either you've got it or you haven't.
I go straight in very close to people and I do that because it's the only way you can get the picture. You go right up to them. Even now, I don't find it easy. I don't announce it. I pretend to be focusing elsewhere. If you take someone's photograph it is very difficult not to look at them just after. But it's the one thing that gives the game away. I don't try and hide what I'm doing - that would be folly.
If you photograph for a long time, you get to understand such things as body language. I often do not look at people I photograph, especially afterwards. Also when I want a photo, I become somewhat fearless, and this helps a lot. There will always be someone who objects to being photographed, and when this happens you move on.
You have to take a lot of bad pictures. Dont' be afraid to take bad pictures. . . You have to take a lot of bad pictures in order to know when you've got a good one.
All photography is propaganda.
I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.
If you feel weak, limited, ordinary, you are the best material through which God can work.
This is why we shouldn't be afraid. There are two possibilities: One is that there's more to life than the physical life, that our souls "will find an even higher place to dwell" when this life is over. If that's true, there's no reason to fear failure or death. The other possibility is that this life is all there is. And if that's true, then we have to really live it - we have to take it for everything it has and "die enormous" instead of "living dormant," as I said way back on "Can I Live. " Either way, fear is a waste of time.
First of all I thought it was ugly, I thought it was ridiculous that undercover police guys would drive a striped tomato and I've never been a big champion of Ford.
Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.