An artist must be ruthlessly selfish.

I can’t stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of art. I want them to be pieces of life!

Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion is present, the result is almost invariably affirmative.

The first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word objective.

I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.

An artist must be ruthlessly selfish.

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.