I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something …

- Lee Friedlander

The world makes up my pictures, not me.

- Lee Friedlander

[Garry Winogrand] was a bull of a man and the world his china shop.

- Lee Friedlander

I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason a…

- Lee Friedlander

It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I make it. If I had a …

- Lee Friedlander

I retired from everything except work.

- Lee Friedlander

The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue.

- Lee Friedlander

Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something that is different from our own…

- Lee Friedlander

Sometimes just the facts of the matter make it interesting.

- Lee Friedlander