I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

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

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.

I feel it is the heart, not the eye, that should determine the content of the photograph. What the eye sees is its own. What the heart can perceive is a very different matter.

I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.

Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.