There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.

If you take a good look at the book [ Stock Photographs], it's largely a portrait gallery of faces - faces that I found dramatic. And some of those turned out to be reasonably dramatic photographs. But that's all it is, I think.

People are just dumb. They misunderstand.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you’ve got to bounce off better work. It’s matter of working.

I've goofed, and there's been something interesting, but I haven't made use of it. It just doesn't interest me.

I have boxes of pictures that nothing is ever going to happen to. Even Public Relations. I mean, I was going to events long before, and I still am.