New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear. To find these images is to dare to see, to be aware of what there is and how it is. The photographer not only gets information, he gives information about life.

Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture.

The snapshooter’s pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection, which is exactly their appeal and their style. The picture isn’t straight. It isn’t done well. It isn’t composed. It isn’t thought out. And out of this imbalance, and out of this not knowing, and out of this real innocence toward the medium comes an enormous vitality and expression of life.

Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know.

Don't shoot til the subject hits you in the pit of your stomach.

Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.

I have often been asked what I wanted to prove by my photographs. The answer is, I don’t want to prove anything. They prove to me, and I am the one who gets the lesson.