A good story needs only a good storyteller.
People say to me, "Who's your favorite kind of photographer?" Or "Who would be your favorite photographer to have in a workshop?" And I always say, "My Dad. "
My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make.
Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.
Why drink and drive if I can smoke and fly?
Women play cellos and violins in symphony orchestras. They're playing Beethoven and Bach. What do you mean they can't play rock and roll?
[My father] was a banker. He was the president of the Cambridge Trust Company, the head of the trust department, and he taught classes at the Harvard Business School. And he was a member of the Harvard Faculty Club, which I am, too, because what I did is. . . I have the same name as my father, only Jr.