I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of research into and reporting on the life of my own time.

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

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.

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

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

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.

All light is available light.