The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.

I'm a New Yorker. Matter of fact, the more I'm in places like Texas and California, the more I know I'm a New Yorker. I have no confusions. About that.

Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.

I don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.

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.

There are people who like photography; there are people who are worrying about what's going to happen with the dollar. They want to get anything that seems hard. I don't know, but I think it's got to do with economics. Now and then you get somebody who buys a picture because he likes it.

Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else.