My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

...There are too many people studying it [photography] now who are never going to make it. You can't give them a formula for making it. You have to have it in you first, you don't learn it. The seeing eye is the important thing.

I don't know what love means.