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

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

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.

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.

The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.

You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.