The next time you pick up a camera think of it not as an inflexible and automated robot, but as a flexible instrument which you must understand to properly use. An electronic and optical miracle creates nothing on its own! Whatever beauty and excitement it can represent exist in your mind and spirit to begin with.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.

I think photography is being recognized and collected. Its values have certainly gone up and continue to go up.

Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.

The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.

No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.