I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.

When you are doing a lot of hard fast field work, it's a physical necessity to forget every day. You can't try to remember it in any continuity. You get so burdened if you try to do it the other way. You can't dictate to your material... We found our way in, slid in on the edges. We used our hunches. And it was hard, hard living.

Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can't see watches you.

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

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.

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.

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