It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger.

Photography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919)

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)

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

All good art is abstract in its structure.

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn’t destroyed them.