“It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.”

You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else’s requirement but your own.

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can’t see watches you.

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.

Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.

To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.

Photography today appears to be in a state of flight… The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.

You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.

After a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived.

We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.

I have a motto: Work to become, not to acquire.

Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature.

The Welfare State, South Africa – and it becomes impossible to seriously confront any of them without understanding their historical background.

Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.

Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.

At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.