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.

Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.

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.

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.

The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.