The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.

I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.