The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

I do find a certain fascination with the unpredictable. The transitory years we wade through are what they are- what we make of them.

You have a 45mm automatic pistol on your lap, and I have a 35mm camera on my lap, and my weapon is just as powerful as yours. (To Black Panther militant Eldridge Cleaver)

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

People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other.

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. You can show things that you like about the universe, things that you hate about the universe. It's capable of doing both.