You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.

If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you.

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

I didn't want to be a woman photographer. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera.

What do you hang on the walls of your mind?

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.

I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.

I thought she would be fun to have fun with.

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.

Lena Smoothed her hair. "Crazy weather you have down here.

I like to work half a day. I don't care if it is the first 12 hours or the second 12 hours.

You don't really realize why you get attracted to certain people, and I do think scent has more to do with it than we realize.

It is no sin to look at a nice girl.

You want to know how I started playing trumpet? My father bought me one, and I studied the trumpet. And everybody I heard that I liked, I picked up things from.

Maintain yourself and everything maintains itself around you.

I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.

We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.