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I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own... →
I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.
When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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.
When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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?
My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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... →
Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.