Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

When you are doing a lot of hard fast field work, it's a physical necessity to forget every day. You can't try to remember it in any continuity. You get so burdened if you try to do it the other way. You can't dictate to your material... We found our way in, slid in on the edges. We used our hunches. And it was hard, hard living.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.