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

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

To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually ... I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

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.

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.