If you're just going to meet consumer or clients' demands, you might as well be a plumber - the work will be more frequently available.

I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it.

Some have said that if you take a great picture in color and take away the color, you'll have a great black-and-white picture. But if you're shooting something about color and you take away the color, you'll have nothing.

The awareness of the quality of space in out photos is akin to our awareness of the very air in our photos, the atmosphere that pervades every square inch of our image and yet is often invisible to the photographer.

Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.

Remember that most people (those who are not photographers) don't even see the things that you missed. Many don't even look. Ergo, you are way ahead of the game.

There is no bad light. There is spectacular light and difficult light. It's up to you to use the light you have.