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I don't like to photograph children as children. I like to see them as adults, as who they really are. I'm always looking for the side of who they might become.

I think it's important to try to get on a kid's level when taking their photo.

It's very difficult to take candid portraits of children because they're moving around all the time.

In the beginning, I started doing portraits of children, and of course, children have large eyes. For some reason, they just started getting bigger and bigger. Then, when I started painting imaginary children rather than real ones, they became bigger still.

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.

It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.

This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.

You have to make sure that you and your child are connecting, and it does help when they are looking directly into your eyes.

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

You adapt to who you're photographing.