"[There is]...no such thing as photojournalism anymore. That's over, except in newspapers. I respect newspapers but th…"

"I know how to tell a story, but there’s a deeper thing I’m trying to get to now that can’t be expressed with a caption."

"My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea."

"Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that …"

"The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past."

"Social misery has inspired the comfortably-off with the urge to take pictures, the gentlest of predations, in order t…"

"Eggleston was a man of his time, the 1960s. In the 1960s, street photography was at its zenith, and Pop Art dominated…"

"Even when photographers are most concerned with mirroring reality, they are still haunted by tacit imperatives of tas…"

"Photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing."

"The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street."