The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world.

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.

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

I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn’t destroyed them.

No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend!

. . . if there was a hope of comfort for any moment, the heart or head of no human being in this house could yield it . . .

The test of a sword is not its polish but its temper

I would love to date a chef. I'd probably get really fat, but I don't care.

The essence of that which is like unto itself, is drawn.

We are not the people who made this world, Lukas, but it's up to us to survive it. You need to understand that." "We can't control where we are right now," he mumbled, "just what we do going forward.

There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.

Whenever I'm asked who my favourite co-star is, I always hesitate in giving an answer.

Nothing so completely verifies our perception of a thing as our killing of it.

I don't know anything about inspiration because I don't know what inspiration is; I've heard about it, but I never saw it.