I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I'm the one to do it.

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.

Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term-selectivity.

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of the lens' vision are esthetically often a virtue.