I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

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.

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

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

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

It takes me a long time to change. I don't think you can just go out and figure out a bunch of visual ideas and photograph. The change happens in living and not through thinking.

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.