I have been born again and again and each time, I have found something to love.

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.

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

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.

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.

Photography was my choice of weapons.

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.