Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again --- it never would have been the same. Start stealing!.

There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree..

I wasn't very ambitious. I think that's the solution. I just took things as they came. I wouldn't say I didn't have any problem, but I didn't care. I….

I don't resent anything..

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket..

When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me..

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer..

I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life..

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow..

You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]'s where she has row after row of people ….

When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that..

I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us..

When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money..

It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease..

I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods..

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead..

My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back..

Which is my best picture? The one I will do tomorrow..

I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They….

...There are too many people studying it [photography] now who are never going to make it. You can't give them a formula for making it. You have to h….

The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike..