"I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photograp..."
"I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography."
"My profile is bigger in Europe than it is in the U.K."
"Kate Moss is small and not necessarily model dimensions but she has that special something."
"To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society."
"I got sick of being famous. It is not a desirable 'job.'"
"I just immediately connect everything to the wars I have been covering overseas, and that's not the case back home. I wrongly assumed all Americans at home were as consumed with our troops in Afghanistan as I was abroad."
"I'm a terrible punster. And I love to rhyme. I just can't help myself."
"Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand."
"My only rule: I never photographed the face of the dead, ever, out of respect for the families."
"I came to New York in 1948 at 19, after one term at Harvard. Well, Harvard wasn't for me at all."
"I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me."
"The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention."
"To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis."
"Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation."
"I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element."
"I'm not very good at science or math, even though I pretend. And I'm not very good at teaching. I'm not very patient."
"If you're curious, London's an amazing place."
"Everybody's got to do something... I'd been on my own since an early age and I thought I better find something to do to buy biscuits and stuff. From high school onwards I was earning my way with photography, one way or another, working in darkrooms and taking pictures of weddings, neighbors' children and so on."
"Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view."
"Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world."
"When you put the subjectivity of the art together with the context of the science, you have this very powerful conjunction of opposites and together they are greater than either one could ever be."
"There are conservatives who say, 'Why would you show the country in a weak way?' And there are liberals who say I'm exploitative."
"No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen."
"My body was so instrumental to how I took pictures: it was practically a dance. I used to use my legs a lot; now I'm a little more sedentary."
"Sometimes when I am photographing a major news event, I am suddenly overwhelmed by helplessness."
