What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.

It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.

I can't hold a camera anymore.

...if you think of modern art like sex in all its forms - heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, multipartnered, bestial, whatever, with absolutely no holds barred and with everything available and permissible - that would be modern art.

I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.

It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.

Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.