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.

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.

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.

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.

You go into a room and you know where you're welcome; you know where you're unwelcome.Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that's one kind of person, but the fellow who's hiding behind a tree and hoping you don't see him is the fellow that you'd better find out why.

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.