"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."

"There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are."

"Black and white are the colors of photography. They symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is subjected."

"The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do"

“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”

“I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.”

"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst"

“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”

"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera."

“All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”