If you banish fear, nothing terribly bad can happen to you..

By some special graciousness of fate I am deposited - as all good photographers like to be - in the right place at the right time. Go into it as youn….

Utter truth is essential...and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours..

I like to hide my camera and use a remote control, because then no one knows when I'm actually imprisoning their souls in the visual plane of thought….

The very secret of life for mewas to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. I had picked a life that dealt with excitement, tr….

The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility..

If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important as the equipment he use….

Nothing attracts me like a closed door..

The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way..

The sights I have just seen [at Buchenwald] are so unbelievable that I don't think I'll believe them myself until I've seen the photographs..

Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open..

A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share..

Work to me is a sacred thing..

I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses..

As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights... That all signi….

My idea of gardening is to discover something wild in my wood and weed around it with the utmost care until it has a chance to grow and spread..

Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject..

The world was waiting to be full of discovery made(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned.you would react to something all oth….

War makes its own morals..

I love to write out of doors and sleep out of doors, too. If I sleep under the open sky it becomes part of the writing experience, part of my insulat….

It seems to me that while it is very important to get a striking picture of a line of smoke stacks or a row of dynamos, it is becoming more and more ….