“All too frequently the amateur will purchase a fine modern camera and proceed to use it for making the most elementary simple snapshots. This surely is like playing ‘Chopsticks’ on a concert grand piano.”

"I believe in the basic notion that the world is infinitely interesting."

"We don't take pictures with our cameras. We take them with our hearts and we take them with our minds."

"The camera is just a tool; the real magic happens when the photographer can find the humanity in their subjects."

"If you want to see what someone is truly like, ask them to jump."

"If you wait, people will forget your camera and the soul will drift up into view."

"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know."

"Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness."

"Photographing a cake can be art."

“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people."

"My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph."