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.

... it came to me that what I had to do was to take pictures and concentrate upon people, only people, all kinds of people, people who paid me and people who didn't.

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

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.

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.

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

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.