No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.

I trust my instincts. I don't distrust them. They haven't led me astray. It's when I've made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong.

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.

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.

Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.

... it came to me that what I had to do was to take pictures and concentrate upon people, only people, all kinds of people, people who paid me and people who didn't.

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.