This benefit of seeing...can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image...the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

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

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.