Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.

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.

I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.

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.

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