1. “The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.”
2. “What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.”
3. “Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.”
4. “You can’t make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn’t there.”
5. “You should never reveal your true age.”
6. “It’s the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.”
7. “I came to photography by accident.”
8. “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.”
9. “I don’t see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.”
10. “I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.”
11. “What do you hang on the walls of your mind?”
12. What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be ‘curiosity’.
13. “I want the subject to be control. Because they will give me something I couldn’t possibly know about them.”
14. “I had in mind a long career.”
15. “If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.”
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