... 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.

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.

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.

No language on earth speaks as comprehensively as photography, always providing that we follow the chemical and optic and physical path to demonstrable truth, and understand physiognomy.

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

Photography has no dark sides!

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