Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.

I don't care if you make a print on a bath mat, just as long as it is a good print.

The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel cage chase from new lens to new paper to new developer to new gadget, never staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities, becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use since they don't know what to do with it.

To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.

I see no reason for recording the obvious.