You go into a room and you know where you're welcome; you know where you're unwelcome.Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that's one kind of person, but the fellow who's hiding behind a tree and hoping you don't see him is the fellow that you'd better find out why.

That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.

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.

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

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

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.

The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.