When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

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

All art is based on non-conformity.

Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.

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

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

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.