Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.

Ansel Adams rattled around the Southwest with his battered truck and his view camera, which looked like a giant accordion with a lens attached to it.

Digital technology has thrown a closed shop wide open, and there are more people out there snapping away than ever before. Some of the pictures are bad, some of them are good, and many of them need some seasoning and direction.

I've been a big fan always of getting my camera in different places and trying to seek the unusual vantage point.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people.

Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself.

You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.

I think the beauty of growing up is not really knowing and figuring it out for yourself.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.