To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.

Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.

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.

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.

I've never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning - but some phase of photographer I've always been.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

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