Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

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.

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.

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.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.