The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.

You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I'm the one to do it.

To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, more selective, more acute eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world. Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times-the pulse of today. The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will, but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.

I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.

Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer.

Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term-selectivity.

Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific age, an offspring of both science and art.