Cartier-Bresson has said that photography seizes a 'decisive moment', that's true except that it shouldn't be taken too narrowly...does my picture of a cobweb in the rain represent a decisive moment? The exposure time was probably three or four minutes. That's a pretty long moment. I would say the decisive moment in that case was the moment in which I saw this thing and decided I wanted to photograph it.

To be a photographer you must have something to say about the world.

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

The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world.

All light is available light.

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