I trust my instincts. I don't distrust them. They haven't led me astray. It's when I've made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong.

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually ... I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.

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.

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

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.

The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.