“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.”

“Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of the artist's side; and the converse of this proposition is likewise true. But it is possible to train both sides of the character to work in harmony, and the first step in that education is to consider that you must teach yourself not as though you were one person, but two.”

“Fully revealed, the green eyes pierced her heart. In them, she sensed pain, loneliness and despair. Yet they weren't seeing her. Focused on the movement of the blade, the mesmerizing gaze seemed a world away. Stroke after stroke, the unmasked face appeared in the mirror.”

“Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.”

“Isn’t it amazing how much good people can do for each other when you give them the opportunity to help?”