The first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word objective.

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?

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.

Next thing you know they'll take your thoughts away.

Diversity is crucial to art and crucial to cinema. That's a very strong European statement: All people should be able to have images of themselves.

There is no such thing as having attained enough. Life is an endless possibility.

I think it is better for societies if no one dominates forever.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

I tried for about two semesters in a preparatory seminary. But I was about 15 and didn't fully understand what a vocation means.

While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.

As if hands were enough To hold an avalanche off.