The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

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.

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.

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

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.

Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.