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

I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.

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'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 )

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

Photography helps people to see.

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