Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers I have no interest in at all.

If you ever watch children play - what do you observe when you watch children play? You know, they're dead serious. They're not on vacation.

I don't think of it as difficult. It would be difficult if I were carrying something heavy, but I carry Leicas. You can't talk about it that way. I'm not operating a shovel and getting tired.

Well, in terms of what a camera does. Again, you go back to that original idea that what you photograph is responsible for how it [the photograph] looks. And it's not plastic, in a way. The problem is unique in photographic terms.

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

I have to photograph where I am.