I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn’t destroyed them.

The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it is precisely here that honesty no less than intensity of vision is the pre-requisite of a living expression. The fullest realization of this is accomplished without tricks of process or manipulation, through the use of straight photographic methods.

I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery.

And if you can find out something about the laws of your own growth and vision as well as those of photography you may be able to relate the two, create an object that has a life of its own, which transcends craftsmanship. That is a long road, and because it must be your own road nobody can teach it to you or find it for you. There are no shortcuts, no rules.

If Ansel Adams gets a thousand dollars a print, I want ten thousand.

All light is available light.

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.