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.

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.

You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

go in over your head, not just up to your neck.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.