My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has eyes and sees, they won't be seen - and still everyone will never forget having once looked at them.

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.

To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still.

There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.

Beautiful dreams - if the world were more beautiful they would come true - But the world is relentless & cruel - people are - they must be, I suppose, or they could not live.

I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.

For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark of a personality.