Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

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.

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.

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

Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can't see watches you.

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually ... I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.