That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.

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

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.

I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

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.

I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.