I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own.

- Danny Lyon

If 'The Wild One' were filmed today, Marlon Brando and the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club would all have to wear helmets. I used to be afraid that when …

- Danny Lyon

As a child I had been so afraid of so many things, but as soon as I held a camera in my hand, I began to expose myself to the very things that were f…

- Danny Lyon

The pictures do not ask you to help these people, but something much more difficult; to be briefly, intensely aware of their existence, an existence …

- Danny Lyon

It’s a very weird thing being a photographer.

- Danny Lyon

I feel totally responsible for what I see. I feel totally responsible for what I photograph.

- Danny Lyon

The sign at the entrance to my gym locker room says, no cell phones please, cell phones are cameras. They are not. A camera is a Nikon or a Leica or …

- Danny Lyon

I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)

- Danny Lyon

The use of the camera has always been for me a tool of investigation, a reason to travel, to not mind my own business, and often to get into trouble.

- Danny Lyon