“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”

“While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.”

“It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.”

“That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.”

“A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.”

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”

“It is quality rather than quantity that matters.”

“Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isnt that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who re...”

“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.”

“Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.”

“In an era of globalization, we recognize that we are part of a global society, but we have no idea how to make such a society work. So far, no unified vision or leadership has emerged to guide us i...”

“It is with eight lengthy legs we use to catch food, balance and knit a beautiful silk bed,but as babies we had lost our bones and skin, and hence our legs we had shed.”

“The big lesson of planetary science is when you do a first reconnaissance of a new kind of object, you should expect the unexpected.”

“Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.”

“The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.”