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 tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find out in one life either.

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.

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 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.

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

A man has to know his limitations.