We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say some….

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professiona….

Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating or breathing..

Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter..

Another picture I hope to be remembered by is this one of the drum major rehearsing at the University of Michigan. It was early in this morning, and ….

I will be remembered when I'm in heaven. People won't remember my name, but they will know the photographer who did that picture of that nurse being ….

Photographers don't need to be aggressive. Some are. Henry Benson is aggressive - but then he's from Fleet Street. If you can talk to people, you don….

I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer..

I want to be a mouse in a mousehole..

The important thing is not the camera but the eye..

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear..

I seldom think when I take a picture. My eyes and fingers react - click. But first, it's most important to decide on the angle at which your photogra….

In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all..

All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment..

I always prefer photographing in available light – or Rembrandt-light I like to call it – so you get the natural modulations of the face. It makes a ….

With photography, everything is in the eye and these days I feel young photographers are missing the point a bit. People always ask about cameras but….

The way I would describe a pictorial is that it is a picture that makes everybody say ‘Aaaaah,’ with five vowels when they see it. It is something yo….

I don’t use an exposure meter. My personal advice is: Spend the money you would put into such an instrument for film. Buy yards of film, miles of it.….

When I photographed Marilyn Monroe, I mixed up my cameras - one had black-and-white film, the other color. I took many pictures. Only two color ones ….

People will never understand the patience a photographer requires to make a great photograph, all they see is the end result. I can stand in front of….

The most important thing... is not clicking the shutter... it is clicking with the subject..