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

Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.

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

All good art is abstract in its structure.

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.

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