I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.
I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious.
I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking is almost in every way in accord with everyone else. Expression on this basis has become dull to those who wish to think for themselves.
If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.
The mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us.
The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but ones that are different because the individual is different and the individual expresses himself.