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.

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

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.

I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do.

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.

In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.

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.