The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of labor.

Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.

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

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.

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

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.