Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.

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

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

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.

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