I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.

I just don't know what makes a picture, really - the thing that makes it is something unique, as far as I can understand. Just like one guy can write a sentence and it's beautiful and another one can write it and it's dead. What the difference is, I don't know.

Nothing wrong with people getting shot, as long as it's the right people getting shot.

I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find out in one life either.

To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.

A picture is like a prayer.

A picture is like a prayer; you're offering a prayer to get something, and in a sense it's like a gift of God because you have practically no control-at least I don't.