If you take a good look at the book [ Stock Photographs], it's largely a portrait gallery of faces - faces that I found dramatic. And some of those turned out to be reasonably dramatic photographs. But that's all it is, I think.

You know, I really don't think you learn from teachers. You learn from work. I think what you learn, really, is how to be- you have to be your own toughest critic, and you only learn that from work, from seeing work.

I have no expectations. None at all.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

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

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.

There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.