The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

... 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.

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

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.

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.

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.