The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you’ve got to bounce off better work. It’s matter of working.

You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

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

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

There are people who are socially ambitious. If you go back aways, the Sculls, for instance, had a lot of money and they were socially ambitious. If you get an old master, it's not going to do you any good socially.

It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy.