There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.

I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.

I'm pretty fast with a camera when I have to be. However, I think it's irrelevant.

You've got a number of things that take place that are peculiar to still photography. One: how a picture looks - what you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks. In other words, it's responsible for the form.

You know, I really don't think you learn from teachers. You learn from work. I think what you learn, really, is how to be- you have to be your own toughest critic, and you only learn that from work, from seeing work.

When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less "how."

There was a camera club at Columbia, where I was taking a painting course. And when I went down, somebody showed me how to use the stuff. That's all. I haven't done anything else since then, It was as simple as that. I fell into the business.