I just believe in working. I'm not one of those romantic explainers of my own individual point of view.

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

Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.

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 think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.

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

I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.