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

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.

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.

By some special graciousness of fate I am deposited - as all good photographers like to be - in the right place at the right time. Go into it as young as possible. Bring all the asset you have and play to win.

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

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.

Nothing attracts me like a closed door.