When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.

When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.

You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.

My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.

When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.

I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

I hate big models.

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.

A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?

I don't resent anything.

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.

When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.

I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.

Get it out of your historic head.

Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

I don't know what love means.

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.

Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.

The thing thats fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.

The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

You have choices to make about what you do with the rest of your life.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.