I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline.

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 don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.

There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work.

If I ever hear "Power to the people" again, I'llà I just found out that John Lennon wrote that song, "All we are saying is give peace a chance." I couldn't believe it. I thought it was terrible; I hated that song. They used to bring out the Pete Seeger wind-up toy to sing it. Tiresome.

I don't know how to say easily what I learned. One thing I can say I learned is how amazing photography could be.

At times people in the press were also useful to me.