Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.

By sight and observation and thought, with the help of the camera, and the addition of the date of the year, we can hold fast the history of the world.

Nothing is more hateful to me than photography coated with gimmicks, poses and false effects. Therefore let me speak the truth in all honesty about our age and the people of our age

Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.

I never made a person look bad. They do that themselves.

... mortification is basic to the act of photographing. The person is mobile, ... then I freeze one moment in his movement, a mere five-hundredth of a second of that person's life-time. That's a very meager or small extract from a life.

Photography has no dark sides!