I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane.

With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world.

I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got a bit of Aunt Mary’s laundry and Beau Jack, the dog, peeing on the fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and 78 trees and a million pebbles in the driveway and more. It’s a generous medium, photography.

... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest.

The world makes up my pictures, not me.

[Garry Winogrand] was a bull of a man and the world his china shop.

I retired from everything except work.