"Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera."

- Margaret Bourke-White

The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way.

- Margaret Bourke-White

It seems to me that while it is very important to get a striking picture of a line of smoke stacks or a row of dynamos, it is becoming more and more …

- Margaret Bourke-White

The sights I have just seen [at Buchenwald] are so unbelievable that I don't think I'll believe them myself until I've seen the photographs.

- Margaret Bourke-White

I love to write out of doors and sleep out of doors, too. If I sleep under the open sky it becomes part of the writing experience, part of my insulat…

- Margaret Bourke-White

Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.

- Margaret Bourke-White

Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.

- Margaret Bourke-White

Work to me is a sacred thing.

- Margaret Bourke-White

If you banish fear, nothing terribly bad can happen to you.

- Margaret Bourke-White