I find at least a dozen of Helen Levitt's photographs as beautiful, perceptive, satisfying, and enduring as any lyrical work I know.
Furthermore, in their general quality and coherence, the photographs as a whole body, as a book, seem to me to combine into a unified vision of the world, a lighthearted but irrefutable manifesto of a way of seeing, and in a soft and total way. unpretentious way, a great poetic work.”
James Agee.