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.

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.

Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.