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.

I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.

I'm not a nice girl. I'm a photographer.

Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.

What to me is anathema - a corpse-like, outmoded hangover - is for photography to be a bad excuse for another medium. ... Is not photography good enough in itself, that it must be made to look like something else, supposedly superior?

I'm not a nice girl; I'm a photographer. (On being told by a Federal Art Project official, after she photographed the Bowery, that a nice girl should not go into such neighborhoods )

The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of the lens' vision are esthetically often a virtue.