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.

The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.

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

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

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

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.