Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.

A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of imaging, which of course is important, but rather what we might call the eyenology (seeing).

The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.

A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.