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

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

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

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

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

I look for a sense of reality with everything I did. I didn't work in a studio, I didn't light anything. 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 and £5 worth of film in my pocket or maybe it was only £2 in those days.

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.