“Is a picture really worth a thousand words? What thousand words? A thousand words from a lunatic or a thousand words from Nietzsche? Actually, Nietzsche was a lunatic, but you see my point. What about a thousand words from a rambler vs. 500 words from Mark Twain? He could say the same thing quicker and with more force than almost any other writer. One thousand words from Ginsberg are not even worth one from Wilde. It’s wild to declare the equivalency of any picture with any army of 1,000 words. Words from a writer like Wordsworth make you appreciate what words are worth.”
“A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.”
“You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”
“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!”
“You don't take a photograph, you make it.”
“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”