All I want is to preserve that wonderful something which so purely exists between us.

Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.

Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.

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.

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.

I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.

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