I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job.

Photography isn't about seeing, it's about feeling. If I don't have some kind of feeling for what I'm shooting, how can I expect the person who looks at it to feel anything?

Photography is the truth if it’s being handled by a truthful person.

Seeing, looking at what others cannot bear to see is what my life is all about.

Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.

The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people, and how they exist, and how they fight for space and time and pleasure.

You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them.

I met an Englishwoman in Africa. She said she became a doctor because she saw one of my pictures. That’s all I want – just one doctor in Africa.

Sometimes it felt like I was carrying pieces of human flesh back home with me, not negatives. It's as if you are carrying the suffering of the people you have photographed.

I am a professed atheist, until I find myself in serious circumstances. Then I quickly fall on my knees, in my mind if not literally, and I say : 'Please God, save me from this.'

There's always a threat surrounding the things you love

Games are for childhood, and sometimes I think I lost my childhood young.

There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices.

Most people that commit to a life of celibacy weren't leaving that much on the table in the first place.

Walk humbly but walk confidently. People want to follow confident, humble leaders.

I'll see you again in a thousand years.

I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

I miss live audiences, because it's like no other form of entertainment, where the audience is a major part of the production every night.

Kaylee do you know why you are here?" "Yeah. Because the doors are locked.

I love N.Y.C.! I cant think of any individual that hates New York.