A good nude photograph can be erotic, but certainly not sentimental or pornographic.

Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.

I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.

In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.

If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this: See the subject first. Do not try to force it to be a picture of this, that or the other thing. Stand apart from it. Then something will happen. The subject will reveal itself.

The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time.

The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal to his own interests will he produce a work of distinction.