Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger.

If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.

No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you print it, you cannot say more than you can see.

The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world.

All good art is abstract in its structure.

I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of research into and reporting on the life of my own time.

Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation

Manage your life as you manage your money.

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.

The same people neglecting and hating are the ones going through issues in their own lives, and they're scared to face that.

Rich people who own mansions on the beach shouldn't get federal subsidies. If you want to stay there, take the risk

You have to walk and believe that you can find the light.

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.