The artist has one function-to affirm and glorify life.

The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

The intention (of an artist) is (the same as a scientist)...to discover and reveal what is unsuspected but significant in life.

The artist has one function--to affirm and glorify life.

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.

Like the American documentary photographer Dorothea Lange, Morrison was an artist drawn to the lives of people otherwise unknown, to places seldom visited, to experiences or customs mostly ignored.