The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.

Galen

When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.

Galen

My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.

Galen

Laziness breeds humors of the blood.

Galen

He who has two cakes of bread, let him dispose of one of them for some flowers of the narcissus; for bread is the food of the body, and the narcissus is the food of the soul.

Galen

The physician is only nature's assistant.

Galen

The best physician is also a philosopher.

Galen

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.

Galen

(Wine is) the nurse of old age.

Galen

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.

Galen

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

Galen

Confidence and hope do more good than physic.

Galen