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

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

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

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.

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

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

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.