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

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

I have never known anyone important enough to consume me in anger beyond a few hours. Better to depart their existence before they poison your own.

So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way.

I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing.

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

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life