Photography helps people to see.

The more you do, the more you realize there is to do, what a vast object the metropolis is, and how the work of photographing could go on forever.

To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, more selective, more acute eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world. Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times-the pulse of today. The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will, but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.

I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.