I became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate.

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

The artist must operate on the assumption that the public consists in the highest order of individual; that he is civilized, cultured, and highly sensitive both to emotional and intellectual contexts. And while the whole public most certainly does not consist in that sort of individual, still the tendency of art is to create such a public - to lift the level of perceptivity, to increase and enrich the average individual's store of values... I believe that it is in a certain devotion to concepts of truth that we discover values.

I became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate.

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

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.

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.