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

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that, if I feel something strongly, I would make a photograph, that would be the equivalent of what I saw and felt.

There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make a formal statement where there was none to begin with. All art is a combination of an external event and an internal event… I make a photograph to give you the equivalent of what I felt. Equivalent is still the best word.

The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.

A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.