You Are Responsible For What You Have

War Makes Its Own Morals.

A Kind Of Golden Hour One Remembers For A Life Time... Everything Was Touched With Magic.

The Very Secret Of Life For Mewas To Maintain In The Midst Of Rushing Events An Inner Tranquility. I Had Picked A Life That Dealt With Excitement, Tragedy, Mass Calamities, Human Triumphs And Suffering. To Throw My Whole Self Into Recording And Attempting To Understand These Things, I Needed An Inner Serenity As A Kind Of Balance.

It Seems To Me That While It Is Very Important To Get A Striking Picture Of A Line Of Smoke Stacks Or A Row Of Dynamos, It Is Becoming More And More Important To Reflect That Life That Goes On Behind These Photographs. (1935)

The Very Secret Of Life For Me, I Believed, Was To Maintain In The Midst Of Rushing Events An Inner Tranquility.