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.

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

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

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

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.

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.

This benefit of seeing...can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image...the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.