My advice is: learn from the best or teach yourself. And do not bother at all if you do not have an exaggerated sense of curiosity.

It is the purpose of life that each of us strives to become actually what he or she is potentially. Each photographer, then, should be obsessed with stretching towards that goal through an understanding of others and the world we inhabit. When that happens, the results, like photographs, are really the expressions of the life of the maker.

These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command--positi on and timing--all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them

There are many forms of photography. I consider myself simply a recorder of that which I find of interest around me. I personally have no desire to create or stage direct ideas.

Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure, for me, in things as-they-are.

You are not a photographer because you are interested in photography.

Learn from the best; the second raters have nothing to offer.