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

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.

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

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

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

I've never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning - but some phase of photographer I've always been.

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.