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I'm sometimes mystified by people who keep diaries. I never thought of my existence as being that important.

There are the things that are out in the open, and there are the things that are hidden. The real world has more to do with what is hidden.

I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.

My father thought photography was done by lowlifes.

The important thing in life is not what you get, but what you throw out.

My family was very unhappy about my becoming a photographer - profoundly and deeply unhappy.

Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.

Seeing is a neglected enterprise.

Sometimes I'm amazed by how much you can do as a photographer.

I like the Zen artists: they'd do some work, and then they'd stop for a while.

I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way.

I am not immersed in self-admiration.

If I'd only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn't have had to do all the thousands of others.

My brothers were rabbis. My grandfather was a rabbi.

I have been told that some of my photographs maybe indicate that I am a painter.

What makes anyone think that I'm any good?

Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.

I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own.