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.

In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music and to paint when I feel like it.

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.

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.

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

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

The important thing in life is not what you get, but what you throw out.