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

My photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. My prints show the world’s constant upsetting of man’s equilibrium, and his eternal battle to reestablish it.

There are many schools of painting. Why should there not be many schools of photographic art? There is hardly a right and a wrong in these matters, but there is truth, and that should form the basis of all works of art.

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

The fight for photography became my life.

Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

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.