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.

Pure photography allows us to create portraits which render their subjects with absolute truth, truth both physical and psychological. That is the principal which provided my starting point, once I had said to myself that if we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times in which those subjects live.

I hate nothing more than sugary photographs with tricks, poses and effects. So allow me to be honest ?and tell the truth about our age and its people.

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.

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

Photography has no dark sides!