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.

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.

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

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

A man has to know his limitations.

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.

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.