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.

It takes me a long time to change. I don't think you can just go out and figure out a bunch of visual ideas and photograph. The change happens in living and not through thinking.

You only do exercises in art school. That's not the real thing. A little bit tells you so much. You have to find your own self. And you don't know what you are! But that's what you have to search for.

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

I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.

Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I quit talking.