If Your Subjects Are Eternal... They'll Survive.

I Don't Think You Can Create Luck. You're Either Lucky Or You're Not. I Don't Know If It's Really Luck Or If It's Just Curiosity. I Think The Main Ingredient, Or A Main Ingredient For Photography Is Curiosity. If You're Curious Enough And If You Get Up In The Morning And Go Out And Take Pictures, You're Likely To Be More Lucky Than If You Just Stay At Home.

You Have To Devote Yourself Totally To Be Successful At It.

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.

Everybody's Got To Do Something... I'd Been On My Own Since An Early Age And I Thought I Better Find Something To Do To Buy Biscuits And Stuff. From High School Onwards I Was Earning My Way With Photography, One Way Or Another, Working In Darkrooms And Taking Pictures Of Weddings, Neighbors' Children And So On.

Photography Is A Craft. Anyone Can Learn A Craft With Normal Intelligence And Application. To Take It Beyond The Craft Is Something Else. That's When Magic Comes In. And I Don't Know That There's Any Explanation For That.