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.

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

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.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

When you are doing a lot of hard fast field work, it's a physical necessity to forget every day. You can't try to remember it in any continuity. You get so burdened if you try to do it the other way. You can't dictate to your material... We found our way in, slid in on the edges. We used our hunches. And it was hard, hard living.

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

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.