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.

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

My project could be only to photograph as I felt and desired, to regulate a pleasant form of living, to get up in the morning-free, to feel the trees, the grass, the water, sky or buildings, people-everything that affects us; and to photograph that which I saw and have always felt.

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.

The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from a poem. If you choose your subject selectively—intuitively—the camera can write poetry.

You're a legend in your own mind.

Opinions are like assholes, everbody's got one.