Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion is present, the result is almost invariably affirmative.

I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them?

You can't photograph if you're not in love.

Up to and including the moment of exposure, the photographer is working in an undeniably subjective way. By his choice of technical approach, by the selection of the subject matterand by his decision as to the exact cinematic instant of exposure, he is blending the variables of interpretation into an emotional whole.

I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.

The first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word objective.

An artist must be ruthlessly selfish.