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.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

I trust my instincts. I don't distrust them. They haven't led me astray. It's when I've made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong.

I've never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning - but some phase of photographer I've always been.

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

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

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.