The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.

Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped . . . in the individual, and in the race.

Well, now, some people learn a little quicker than others. It's nice to learn fast but it's nice to take your time too.

This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to perceive the aesthetic reality within the actual reality. (On photographs by Helen Levitt)