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.

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.

All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache.

I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.

Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.

When I make a picture, I make love.

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.