If you're lucky enough to have captured maybe two hundred memorable pictures, you still haven't captured that much experience, have you?

Look, Matisse I ain't. You know how they have on the invitations, a reception for the artist will be held at... And I say, Look, you gotta change this. I'm not an artist. I'm a photographer, a skilled craftsman.

If you're lucky enough to have captured maybe two hundred memorable pictures, you still haven't captured that much experience, have you?

I'm always looking for perfection. Every photographer, in one way or another, if he's serious, is. He ain't ever going to get it. But hope springs eternal.

There is no such thing as the perfect picture. That's the challenge of photography. I was always striving for perfection, even though I knew I could never achieve it. But it kept me reaching for something.