Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.

All good art is abstract in its structure.

If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.

I don't care how you photograph - use the kitchen mop if you must, but if the product is not true to the laws of photography... you have produced something that is dead. (1923)

The documentary photographer aims his camera at the real world to record truthfulness. At the same time, he must strive for form, to devise effective ways of organizing and using the material. For content and form are interrelated. The problems presented by content and form must be so developed that the result is fundimentally [sic] true to the realities of life as we know it. The chief problem is to find a form that adequately represents the reality.

The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world.

I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery.