Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconseque….

It has always been my belief that the true artist, like the true scientist, is a researcher using materials and techniques to dig into the truth and ….

No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you print it, you cannot say more than you ca….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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..

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

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 documentary photographer aims his camera at the real world to record truthfulness. At the same time, he must strive for form, to devise effective….

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

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….

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….

All light is available light..

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….

All good art is abstract in its structure..

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..

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

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..