Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.

You don't solve anything ever, really. You simply state a problem which, when you're lucky, gives you some idea of what possible problems you can - it indicates, you know, your future headaches.

I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.

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.

Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.

Just think how minimal somebody's family album is. But you start looking at one of them, and the word everybody will use is "charming." Something just happened. It's automatic, just operating a camera intelligently.

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