Photography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919)

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

In her room death would come as a friend, a friend with cool gentle hands . . .

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

Being stupid is not as frustrating as being brilliant for 5 seconds and then average for the rest of your life

Democrats don't want you to know what their tax plans are. They just don't want you to know.

I realize that I'm pretty flawed, but you know - I haven't killed anybody yet.

Painting is something that cannot be destroyed, it must destroy itself to reinvent itself.

The revolts themselves open up something very new. One has to be aware, or listen, or open one's mind to what are the new beginnings.

Suffering is the way for Realization of God.

What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but that the gift of the Holy Spirit is a reality.

It's always great to have another chance at something.