Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again --- it never would have been the same. Start stealing!

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

...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.

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

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

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.

I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.