You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what you're hired for.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has ever contended with. The problem is uniquely complex in still photography.

If I photograph you I don't have you, I have a photograph of you. It's got its own thing. That's really what photography, still photography, is about.