It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.

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.

The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.

It's too presumptuous and naïve to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else... I equate that with propaganda; I think that's a lower rank of purpose.

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

I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat.

Color tends to corrupt photography and absolute color corrupts it absolutely. Consider the way color film usually renders blue sky, green foliage, lipstick red, and the kiddies' playsuit. These are four simple words which must be whispered: color photography is vulgar.