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

If the light is great in front of you, you should turn around and see what it is doing behind you.

Failing is not a problem. Not trying is a problem.

Sometimes without shooting a picture germinates in your head. Other times, you keep taking pictures of the same thing and watch the images mature and grow.

All these factors are only valuable if you're curious. But in any case, the more knowledge you have, the more things are open and available to you.

I try not to tell students where to shoot, when to shoot, or what to shoot. I feel finding the picture is the most important part of being a photographer. The actual shooting is of lesser importance.

A photographer's art is more in his perceptions than his execution. In a painter, I think the perception is only the first step, and then you have a kind of hard road of execution.