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

I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject at the time the pictures were made. That's all that any photographer can claim. I do not know any great photographer who would presume otherwise.

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

The most important piece of equipment after the camera is a good pair of shoes.

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.

I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera.

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