“Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.”

“Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.”

“There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer”

“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”

“To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.”

“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”

“And the most interesting natural structure?A giant, two-thousand-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly World News. The photograph was very convincing, and I'm only surprised that more-reputable journals like New Scientist, or even just The Sun, haven't followed up with more details. We should be told.”