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

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

What we need of equipment is this: let it possess as good a structure as the real-life content that surrounds us. We need more simplifications to free us for seeing.

The art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about.

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

I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.

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.