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

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

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

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.

To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.

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.