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

The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the objects, he must be true to them. If he includes in his space a strip of grass, it must be felt as the living differentiated thing it is and so recorded. It must take its proper but no less important place as a shape and a texture in relationship to the mountain tree or what not, which are included.

If Ansel Adams gets a thousand dollars a print, I want ten thousand.

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

The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become impersonal-it tends to become universal and enduring because it comes out of something very particular.

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

Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.