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.

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.

The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.

I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.

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.

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