Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.

It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.

One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels...

There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.