If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

At times people in the press were also useful to me.

There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.

I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.

Nobody sold prints then and prices didn't mean anything. In terms of earning your living, it was a joke.

You've got a number of things that take place that are peculiar to still photography. One: how a picture looks - what you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks. In other words, it's responsible for the form.

If you ever watch children play - what do you observe when you watch children play? You know, they're dead serious. They're not on vacation.