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

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….

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..

Available light is any damn light that is available!.

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

My camera, my intentions stopped no man from falling. Nor did they aid him after he had fallen. It could be said that photographs be damned for they ….

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

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

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..

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….

...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….

I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose..

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

I am constantly torn between the attitude of the conscientious journalist who is a recorder and interpreter of the facts and of the creative artist w….

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

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….

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

Hardening of the categories causes art disease..

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

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

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