My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time.

Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.

The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.

For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.

A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.

To keep from going stale you must forget your professional outlook and rediscover the virginal eye of the amateur.

The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence

The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. (meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he, the photographer, meets the reality he wishes to capture.

The surrealism of my pictures was nothing but the real made eerie by vision. I was trying to express reality, for there is nothing more surrealist.

There are many photographs which are full of life but which are confusing and difficult to remember. It is the force of an image which matters.

I haven’t been very impressed lately.By people, or places, or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

• Plan in decades• Think in years• Work in months• Count in days• Live in the moment

It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.

I was a first time bride at 44. I had never even lived with anybody. And after running my own business for many years, I knew how to be the boss - but I had no idea how to be a good partner.

Socialism and federalism are necessarily political opposites, because the former demands that centralized concentration of power which the latter by definition denies.

I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.

I believe all children are - are blessings from God. And to allocate that rule to a doctor - to - to dispose of a life is uncomprehensible to me.

Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams.