If I’d only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn’t have had to do all the thousands of others.

I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.

I started out as a fashion photographer. One cannot say that I was successful but there was enough work to keep me busy. I collaborated with Harper's Bazaar and other magazines. I was constantly aware that those who hired me would have preferred to work with a star such as Avedon. But it didn't matter. I had work and I made a living. At the same time, I took my own photographs. Strangely enough, I knew exactly what I wanted and what I liked.

Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.

I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera.

I must admit that I am not a member of the ugly school. I have a great regard for certain notions of beauty even though to some it is an old fashioned idea. Some photographers think that by taking pictures of human misery, they are addressing a serious problem. I do not think that misery is more profound than happiness.

I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own.