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

I never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is creative or not?

The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

I don't resent anything.

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.