After Following The Crowd For A While,

Making People Laugh Is One Of The Highest Achievements You Can Have. And When You Can Make Someone Laugh And Cry, Alternatively, As Chaplin Does - Now That's The Highest Of All Personal Achievements. I Don't Know That I Aim For It, But I Recognize It As The Supreme Goal.

Be Sure To Take The Lens Cap Off Before Photographing.

I'm Almost Violent About That Stuff - Electronic Manipulation Of Pictures. I Think It's An Abomination. I Reject It All. I Mean, It's Ok For Selling Corn Flakes Or Automobiles Or For Taking Pimples Out Of Elizabeth Taylor's Face, But It Undermines The Thing That Photography Is About, Which Is About Observation And Not About Manipulation Of Images.

Most Photographers Work Best Alone, Myself Included.

The Work I Care About Is Terribly Simple. I Observe. I Try To Entertain. But Above All I Want My Pictures To Be Emotional. Little Else Interests Me In Photography.