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.

We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.

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

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.

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.

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

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.