A picture is like a prayer; you're offering a prayer to get something, and in a sense it's like a gift of God because you have practically no control-at least I don't.

The mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us.

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.

I think I came alive when I started photography.

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.

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.

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