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

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

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.

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

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.

A man has to know his limitations.

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