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

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

...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.

You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]'s where she has row after row of people bending over and digging out carrots - that can be very tedious. And so it's only once in a while that something happens that is worth doing.

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