I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

It doesn’t matter if you use a box camera or a Leica, the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing. What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing. To have them realize without saying so, that it was up to them to give me whatever they wanted to give me . . . if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

...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.

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.

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

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

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.