I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.

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.

Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.

We tried to present the ordinary in an extraordinary manner. But that's the paradox because the only thing extraordinary about it was that it was so ordinary. Nobody had ever done it before, deliberately. Now it's called documentary, which I suppose is all right ... We just took pictures that cried out to be taken.

I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.

Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have preferred to work with Stryker than with my department, which was more artistic if you wish.

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.