The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

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

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

Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.

Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.

I've never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning - but some phase of photographer I've always been.

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.