As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights... That all significant perfect moment, so essential to capture, is often highly perishable. There may be little opportunity to probe deeper.

You are responsible for what you have done and the people whom you have influenced.

We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to others.

If you banish fear, nothing terribly bad can happen to you.

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.

The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way.

Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.