I don't resent anything.

Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.

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

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

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

...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.

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.