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

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

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

I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.

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.

I'm a New Yorker. Matter of fact, the more I'm in places like Texas and California, the more I know I'm a New Yorker. I have no confusions. About that.

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.