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.

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

It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.

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.

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

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

This benefit of seeing...can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image...the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.