People, Unprotected By Their Roles, Become Isolated

Sometimes I Think All My Pictures Are Just Pictures Of Me. My Concern Is...the Human Predicament; Only What I Consider The Human Predicament May Simply Be My Own.

And If A Day Goes By Without My Doing Something Related To Photography, It's As Though I've Neglected Something Essential To My Existence, As Though I Had Forgotten To Wake Up. I Know That The Accident Of My Being A Photographer Has Made My Life Possible.

I Can See Myself As A Very Old Man In A Terrific Wheelchair. Only, I Won't Be Photographing The Tree Outside My Window, The Way Steichen Did. I'll Be Photographing Other Old People.

I Hate Cameras. They Interfere, They're Always In The Way. I Wish: If I Could Work With My Eyes Alone.

A Photographic Portrait Is A Picture Of Someone Who Knows He Is Being Photographed