When I started out, it was considered very wrong to change an image. There were scandals if someone inserted a sky into a war picture or something. Now it's all about that.

Finding the right subject is the hardest part.

Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.

I'm interested in reality, and I'm interested in survival. I'm interested in people who aren't the lucky ones, who maybe have a tougher time surviving, and telling their story.

It’s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.

Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.

Reality is always extraordinary.

I’m just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven’t had the best breaks in society. What I want to do more than anything is acknowledge their existence.

I was fascinated by my own prom pictures.

I respect newspapers but the reality is that magazine "photojournalism" is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

You can be happy irrespective of what you have.

There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander.

Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.

Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.

If I wanted to make over my image, I could have given 10,000 interviews in the last 10 years. I haven't done anything wrong that I need to make up for. I am what I am in front of the world.

When you love a problem, its contours, obstacles and resistances are all just part of its character.