Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.

I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.

I wasn't very ambitious. I think that's the solution. I just took things as they came. I wouldn't say I didn't have any problem, but I didn't care. I didn't think I was going to save the world by doing photography as some of these people do. I was just having a good time doing it, and so I still had a good time no matter what I had to photograph.

Get it out of your historic head.