I was a hired gun, more or less.

If you didn’t take the picture, you weren’t there.

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.

What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.

Certainly, you know, you can always learn from some - from somebody else's - from some intelligence. I think. I hope.

I've goofed, and there's been something interesting, but I haven't made use of it. It just doesn't interest me.

In the simplest sentence, I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Basically, that's why I photograph, in the simplest language. That's the beginning of it and then we get to play the games.