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.

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.

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.

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

There are no photographs while I'm reloading .

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

Frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture, not about making a nice picture, that anybody can do.