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.

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.

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

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

The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest – yes. Objective – no.

Hardening of the categories causes art disease.

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

The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest—yes. Objective—no.

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 pieces of life!

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.