If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning

I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing to do with it.

Each time I make a photograph I celebrate the life I love and the beauty I know and the happiness I have experienced. All my photographs are made like that responding to my intuition... After all these years, I am still motivated by the radiance that light creates when it transforms an object into something magical. What the eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black-and-white image is yet another transformation. What exactly exists, we may never know.

Never ever say the word shoot when you are taking a picture with a camera because a camera is not a violent weapon.

Remember God likes us best when we are flying by the seats of our pants.

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

A person cannot learn to be a photographer. He can only cultivate what he already has. I try to make people aware that they have something very precious to cultivate.