What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.

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 is not only drawing with light, though light is the indispensable agent of its being. It is modeling or sculpturing with light, to reproduce the plastic form of natural objects. It is painting with light.

Photography helps people to see.

I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs. Furthermore, a good photographer does not merely document, he probes the subject, he 'uncovers' it.

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

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