Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

What we need of equipment is this: let it possess as good a structure as the real-life content that surrounds us. We need more simplifications to free us for seeing.

Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.

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.

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.

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.

None. They should just go out and photograph and stop talking about it. That's the only way they are going to find themselves. They can't do it in their heads - they have to go out and do it in the camera and get it on film.