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.

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.

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

We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

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

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.