I try to take what voice I have and I give it to those who don’t have one at all..

Hardening of the categories causes art disease..

My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understa….

What's the best type of light? Why that would be available light... and by available light I mean any damn light is available..

Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject..

The first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word objective..

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera..

I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them?.

If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher..

I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil..

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors..

What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?.

You can't photograph if you're not in love..

Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I ….

Available light is any damn light that is available!.

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness..

In music I still prefer the minor key, and in printing I like the light coming from the dark. I like pictures that surmount the darkness, and many of….

...and each time I pressed the shutter release it was a shouted condemnation hurled with the hope that the picture might survive through the years, w….

Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed version of the wo….

The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest—yes. Object….

I can’t stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of art. I want them to be….