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

... 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.

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

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.

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.

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

Therefore, let me in honesty speak the truth about our epoch and people.