The sights I have just seen [at Buchenwald] are so unbelievable that I don't think I'll believe them myself until I've seen the photographs.
Margaret Bourke-WhiteThe element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another. There is something demoralizing about going back to a place to retake pictures. You can no longer see your subjects in a fresh eye; you keep comparing them with the pictures you hold in your memory. [The] world was full of discoveries waiting to be made...(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned...you would react to something all others might walk by.
Margaret Bourke-WhiteLife is beating against the school windows. You must quickly open the doors and go out to learn that no door must be locked against you.
Margaret Bourke-WhiteUtter truth is essential...and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours.
Margaret Bourke-White