My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding.

Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

Hardening of the categories causes art disease.

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

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

I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.

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.

What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?

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.

My one and only goal is to unite the world.

A life without challenges isn’t alive.

The purpose of social work should not be to distribute favours, but to restore rights.

I love Monet - I've nicknamed him King Blob. When you go up to the painting, it's a series of blobs - amazing.

I mean, obviously, a lot of people know me around the world. Kids know me.

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

Be kind to yourself and to others. Treat others the way you would want to be treated. I was told that every day of my childhood.

Upon him the contempt of three planets descended.

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.

In a day of footloose movements of people and of mixed marriages in the ancestry of the most desirable elements of the community we preach unabashed the gospel of the pure race.