Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

I don't care what you do with that negative, you can retouch it, you can spit on it, you can grind it underfoot. The only thing that matters is if it is honest. If [the picture] is honest, you and everybody can tell. If it is dishonest, you and everybody can tell.

It seems to me that no one picture can ever be a final summation of a personality. There are so many facets in every human being that it is impossible to present them all in one photograph.

I am convinced that any photographic attempt to show the complete man is nonsense. We can only show, as best we can, what the outer man reveals. The inner man is seldom revealed to anyone, sometimes not even the man himself.

Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists.

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.