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.

This photographic thing has changed the entire vision of the world. It will go through every activity of humanity - science, medicine, space, ESP, for peace, against peace, entertainment, television, movies, all of them - you will not find one without photography.

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

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

The snapshot has no pretense or ambition. Innocence is the quintessence of the snapshot. I wish to distinguish between innocence and ignorance. Innocence is one of the highest forms of being and ignorance is one of the lowest.

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

It is the surface I am interested in. Because the surface is the inside.