Photography Is 1% Talent And 99% Moving

There Are No Rules And Regulations For Perfect Composition. If There Were We Would Be Able To Put All The Information Into A Computer And Would Come Out With A Masterpiece. We Know That's Impossible. You Have To Compose By The Seat Of Your Pants.

Those Who Call Themselves Art Photographers Are Pompous, Arrogant Egoists.

Influences Come From Everywhere But When You Are Actually Shooting You Work Primarily By Instinct. But What Is Instinct? It Is A Lifetime Accumulation Of Influence: Experience, Knowledge, Seeing And Hearing. There Is Little Time For Reflection In Taking A Photograph. All Your Experiences Come To A Peak And You Work On Two Levels: Conscious And Unconscious.

It Seems To Me That No One Picture Can Ever Be A Final Summation Of A Personality. There Are So Many Facets In Every Human Being That It Is Impossible To Present Them All In One Photograph.

I Am Convinced That Any Photographic Attempt To Show The Complete Man Is Nonsense. We Can Only Show, As Best We Can, What The Outer Man Reveals. The Inner Man Is Seldom Revealed To Anyone, Sometimes Not Even The Man Himself.