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.

Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.

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.

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

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

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

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.