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.

No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you print it, you cannot say more than you can see.

All good art is abstract in its structure.

If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.

Every artist I suppose has a sense of what they think has been the importance of their work. But to ask them to define it is not really a fair question. My real answer would be, the answer is on the wall.