The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.

I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.

It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.