I don't know what love means..

Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that..

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it..

I just believe in working. I'm not one of those romantic explainers of my own individual point of view..

A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?.

So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the right face….

Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don….

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

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer..

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 never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is creative or not?.

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for ….

I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody..

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph..

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing..

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

Get it out of your historic head..