Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.

A kind of golden hour one remembers for a life time... Everything was touched with magic.

Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.

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)

Nothing attracts me like a closed door.

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.

I like to hide my camera and use a remote control, because then no one knows when I'm actually imprisoning their souls in the visual plane of thought or just sitting there, waiting, and then making time stop. The printed film is like a bell used to symbolize its hour. Except it stands for both that hour's and everything's sudden stopping.