It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.

To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis

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

I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff - being sensitive to coincidence. You can't go looking for it; you can't want it, or you won't get it. First you must lose your self. Then it happens.

With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.

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

There is no closed figure in nature. Every shape participates with another. No one thing is independent of another, and one thing rhymes with another, and light gives them shape.