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 )

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

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

I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs. Furthermore, a good photographer does not merely document, he probes the subject, he 'uncovers' it.

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

Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.

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.