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

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.

Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.

You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

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

I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.

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.