This benefit of seeing...can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image...the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

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.

Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.