Think in terms of images and words. They can be mighty powerful when they are fitted together properly.

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the universe, things that you hate about the universe. It's capable of doing both.

The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs.

I think most people can do a whole lot more if they just try.

If a man can reach the latter days of his life with his soul intact, he has mastered life.

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life

And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.