Every photograph could be set up. If one could imagine it, one could set it up. The whole discussion is a way of not talking about photographs.

I felt that from my end, I should deal with the thing itself, which is the event. I pretty much functioned like the media itself.

Great photography is always on the edge of failure.

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

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

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.