Bruce Gilden quotes:

I'm known for taking pictures very close, and the older I get, the closer I get.

There are never beginnings and endings in my work; everything just fits into place after a while.

I love the people I photograph. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.

If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it's a street photograph

I'm photographing myself out there. Not myself physically, but mentally. It's my take on the world.

Everything isn't black and white, but for me it might as well be.

I always said it kept me alive - photography - because it did. It was my catharsis.