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.

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

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

You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I'm the one to do it.

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.

None. They should just go out and photograph and stop talking about it. That's the only way they are going to find themselves. They can't do it in their heads - they have to go out and do it in the camera and get it on film.

Photography helps people to see.