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We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
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A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.
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Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.
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Convergence of our views on global trade issues under the WTO and our common resolve to combat terrorism provide a valuable base for mutual understanding.
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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
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You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
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God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
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I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
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I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.
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Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.
