To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.

I think that the photographer must completely control his picture and bring to it all his personality, and in this area most photographs never transcend being just snapshots. When a great photographer does infuse the snapshot with his personality and vision, it can be transformed into something truly moving and beautiful.

Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.

One of the marvelous things about film is that if you expose it long enough you're going to get a picture.

And in not learning the rules, I was free. I always say, you're either defined by the medium or you redefine the medium in terms of your needs.

Art is not fashionable. That's why fashion and art are two different things. Fashion can never be art because fashion deals with whim, what is temporary, what changes, what is transient, what is now and not now. Art has to deal with issues that are timeless, that never change.

I am interested in the nature of things. The nature of something is quite different from the way it looks.