I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.

...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 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.

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.

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.