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.

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

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.

And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I'm just ready to start.

I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.

I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a camera.