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

We don't take photographs with our cameras, we take them with our hearts and our minds. They are a reflection of ourselves...wha t we are and what we think.

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

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

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.

Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.

Influences come from everywhere but when you are actually shooting you work primarily by instinct. But what is instinct? It is a lifetime accumulation of influence: experience, knowledge, seeing and hearing. There is little time for reflection in taking a photograph. All your experiences come to a peak and you work on two levels: conscious and unconscious.