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.

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.

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.

I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

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

... 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.