Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.

... it came to me that what I had to do was to take pictures and concentrate upon people, only people, all kinds of people, people who paid me and people who didn't.

Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.

go in over your head, not just up to your neck.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.