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.

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

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 visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

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.

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

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