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.

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

go in over your head, not just up to your neck.

The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

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.

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

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