If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.

We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.

The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form.

It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing.

The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy.

Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.

Science adjusts its views based on what's observedFaith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

Now I know what the atom looks like.

And now the bride begins to move. Little mechanical doll, clinging to her husband’s arm, climbing into the carriage. Her white silk stocking, her elegant shoe.

I say making movies is like eating a sandwich of shit. Sometimes you get more bread, sometimes less bread, but you always get shit." (Guardian interview 2006)

Unfortunately for humanity, God is patient enough to actually enjoy watching the grass grow.

I am an Indian and we celebrate all festivals in every region of every religion. That is why it is called Incredible India!

If you love your community, then you need to be insisting on justice in all circumstances.

I'm a terrible photographer.I'm not being modest. My photos really are crap. But in a way, the more the photo is crap, the better to paint from.

You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

If a woman and a man who have an argument keep talking they keep fighting.