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

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

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.

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.

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.