Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer.

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.

If a medium is representational by nature of the realistic image formed by a lens, I see no reason why we should stand on our heads to distort that function. On the contrary, we should take hold of that very quality, make use of it, and explore it to the fullest.

Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world - good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.

I haven't seen too many images that have impressed me!

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.

What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.