You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.

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

Nobody sold prints then and prices didn't mean anything. In terms of earning your living, it was a joke.

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.

I was a hired gun, more or less.

I don't really have any faith in anybody enjoying photographs in a large enough sense to matter. I think it's all about finances, on one side.

I never saw a pyramid, but I've seen photographs; I know what a pyramid or a sphinx looks like. There are pictures that do that, but they satisfy a different kind of interest.