To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter.

I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.

Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.

The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.

I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.

It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe, just now, today, for such a reminder.