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.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.

We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.