I am convinced that any photographic attempt to show the complete man is nonsense. We can only show, as best we can, what the outer man reveals. The inner man is seldom revealed to anyone, sometimes not even the man himself.

Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.

Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.

I often wonder whether I would have done as well in painting.

A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a thing for you if you don't have anything in your head or in your heart.

We do not make photographs with our cameras. We make them with our minds, with our hearts, with our ideas.

The camera is a mirror with a memory, but it cannot think.