If you don't have anything to say, your photographs aren't going to say much.

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.

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

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.

I think most people can do a whole lot more if they just try.

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

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.