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.

"Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera."

If anyone gets in my way when I'm making a picture, I become irrational. I'm never sure what I am going to do, or sometimes even aware of what I do-only that I want that picture.

I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses.

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.

A burning purpose attracts others who are drawn along with it and help fulfill it.