There are people who are socially ambitious. If you go back aways, the Sculls, for instance, had a lot of money and they were socially ambitious. If you get an old master, it's not going to do you any good socially.

There's an arbitrary idea that the horizontal edge in a frame has to be the point of reference.

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.

It was interesting; it's an interesting photographic problem [those demonstrations in the late Sixties]. But if I was doing it as a job, I think I'd have to get paid extra.

Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.

You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.

I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the photograph questions. Mine or anybody else's. The only time I've ever dealt with that kind of thing is when I'm teaching.