There is no special way a photograph should look.

I look at a photograph. What's going on? What's happening, photographically? If it's interesting, I try to understand why.

The camera's dumb, it don't [sic] care who's pushing the button. It doesn't know.

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.

For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.

Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.

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