Life is beating against the school windows. You must quickly open the doors and go out to learn that no door must be locked against you.

A kind of golden hour one remembers for a life time... Everything was touched with magic.

Nothing attracts me like a closed door.

To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.

The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another. There is something demoralizing about going back to a place to retake pictures. You can no longer see your subjects in a fresh eye; you keep comparing them with the pictures you hold in your memory. [The] world was full of discoveries waiting to be made...(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned...you would react to something all others might walk by.

If anyone gets in my way when I'm making a picture, I become irrational. I'm never sure what I am going to do, or sometimes even aware of what I do-only that I want that picture.

Utter truth is essential...and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours.