You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style.

What I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach to photography is the addition of lyricism.[this quality] is usually produced unconsciously and even unintentionally and accidentally by the cameraman.

Many photographers are apt to confuse color with noise, and to congratulate themselves when they have almost blown you down with screeching hues alone-a bebop of electric blues, furious reds, and poison greens.

Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.

The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.

That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.