The words that come direct from the people are the greatest... If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that's one kind of person, but the fellow who's hiding behind a tree and hoping you don't see him is the fellow that you'd better find out why.

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.