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

It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.

Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.

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.

Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others.

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

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