What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?

In music I still prefer the minor key, and in printing I like the light coming from the dark. I like pictures that surmount the darkness, and many of my photographs are that way. It is the way I see photographically. For practical reasons, I think it looks better in print too.

Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.

My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding.

An artist must be ruthlessly selfish.

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.

... to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs.