Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.

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

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.

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.

Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can't see watches you.

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

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