Even while you're in dead earnest about your work, you must approach it with a feeling of freedom and joy; you must be loose-jointed, like a relaxed athlete.

Usually I object when someone makes over-much of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.

A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.

We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to others.

Utter truth is essential...and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours.

It seems to me that while it is very important to get a striking picture of a line of smoke stacks or a row of dynamos, it is becoming more and more important to reflect that life that goes on behind these photographs. (1935)

The world was waiting to be full of discovery made(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned.you would react to something all others might walk by.