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.

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.

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

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.

The fundamental issue is one of emphasis: you are not a photographer because you are interested in photography...The reason is that photography is only a tool, a vehicle, for expressing or transmitting a passion in something else. It is not the end result.

For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about.