The most important thing... is not clicking the shutter... it is clicking with the subject.

In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.

Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating or breathing.

In New York’s Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers.

I enjoy traveling and recording far-away places and people with my camera. But I also find it wonderfully rewarding to see what I can discover outside my own window. You only need to study the scene with the eyes of a photographer.

I see pictures all the time. I could stay for hours and watch a raindrop.