Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

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.

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

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

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.

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.