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

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.

That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.

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

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

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

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.