While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.

What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.)

I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.

We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.

A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.