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.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.

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.

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.

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

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

I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.