There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

The art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about.

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.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.

I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.

The more you do, the more you realize there is to do, what a vast object the metropolis is, and how the work of photographing could go on forever.