One of the things I learned on the street was to trust life and to keep hands off of it, and that feeling continues in the rest of the works that I d….

Photography is about being exquisitely present..

A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale and say 'Wow!'.

Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary recognition of things. Suddenly you're alive. A minute later there was nothing there. I j….

I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography—that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as landscape ….

You look at it [a photograph] and all around the real world is humming, buzzing and moving, and yet in this little frame there is stillness that look….

Making any statement of your feelings is risky. It's just like making pictures..

They [photographs] teach you about your own unraveling past, or about the immediacy of yesterday. They show you what you look at. If you take a photo….

What is the art experience about? Really, I'm not interested in making Art at all. I never, ever, think about it. To say the word Art, it's almost li….

You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there..

I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it as a tragedy. Because there is a tragic elem….

I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it's got lots of accounting going on in it-stones and buildin….

When you're on the street, and, as you're walking along, a woman turns the corner going away from you, and for an instant you have a glimpse of the s….

Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going to make these pictures. We need a r….

We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your ideas or are they just good pic….

'Tough' meant it was an uncompromising image, something that came from your gut, out of instinct, raw, of the moment, something that couldn't be desc….

We all experience it. Those moments when we gasp and say, Oh, look at that. Maybe it's nothing more than the way a shadow glides across a face, but i….

The thought for us [street photographers] was always: How much could we absorb and embrace of a moment of existence that would disappear in an instan….

[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation..

I find it strangely beautiful that the camera with its inherent clarity of object and detail can produce images that in spite of themselves offer pos….

I want to enjoy the languor of just living, recognizing, acknowledging, taking it in, sort of amplifying it in some way. [Photography] is a great med….