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

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

Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

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.

I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.

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