It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

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

Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions and conceptions.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.

The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.

It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.

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.