I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.

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?

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.

The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest—yes. Objective—no.

Do you remember? Do you remember the world before the poison?

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.

We’re not dead yet, so don’t talk to us like we’re about to be.

Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes.

My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies, Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die, I can fly, my friends.

Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses.

We do not wish to say only that a man is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for that of all men.

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.