I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn’t destroyed them..

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….

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

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep..

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

I don't care how you photograph - use the kitchen mop if you must, but if the product is not true to the laws of photography... you have produced som….

Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important..

I read the other day that Minor White said it takes twenty years to become a photographer. I think that is a bit of an exaggeration. I would say, jud….

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness..

The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and all comparison of potentialities i….

The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the objects, he must be….

All good art is abstract in its structure..

Every artist I suppose has a sense of what they think has been the importance of their work. But to ask them to define it is not really a fair questi….

The decision as to when to photograph, the actual click of the shutter, is partly controlled from the outside, by the flow of life, but it also comes….

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 photogra….

If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist..

It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger..

Cartier-Bresson has said that photography seizes a 'decisive moment', that's true except that it shouldn't be taken too narrowly...does my picture of….

Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and if you care enough about photogra….

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 th….

All light is available light..