... it came to me that what I had to do was to take pictures and concentrate upon people, only people, all kinds of people, people who paid me and people who didn't.

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

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

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

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

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.

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