If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.

You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.

I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you.

Being a woman is just a marvelous plus in photographing. Men like to be photographed by women, it becomes flirtatious and fun, and women feel less as if they're expected to be in a relationship.

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.

I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.