For photography is a way to capture the moment - not just any moment, but the important one, this one moment out of all time when your subject is revealed to the fullest - that moment of perfection which comes once and is not repeated.

...the pepper is beginning to show signs of strain, and tonight should grace a salad. It has been suggested that I am a cannibal to eat my models.

It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.

......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.

To see the Thing itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism... This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. Significant presentation - not interpretation.

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

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