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

When you are doing a lot of hard fast field work, it's a physical necessity to forget every day. You can't try to remember it in any continuity. You get so burdened if you try to do it the other way. You can't dictate to your material... We found our way in, slid in on the edges. We used our hunches. And it was hard, hard living.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

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.

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.

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

go in over your head, not just up to your neck.