When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.

A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?

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.

When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.

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

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

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