All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

My 'work' is about seeing not about ideas.

A picture should be looked at - not talked about.

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

Working myself into a position of total versatility, so that I can do anything I want to do at the time I want to do it. Whether I do it or not is another question.

Everybody's got to do something... I'd been on my own since an early age and I thought I better find something to do to buy biscuits and stuff. From high school onwards I was earning my way with photography, one way or another, working in darkrooms and taking pictures of weddings, neighbors' children and so on.

The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.