Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.

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

What to me is anathema - a corpse-like, outmoded hangover - is for photography to be a bad excuse for another medium. ... Is not photography good enough in itself, that it must be made to look like something else, supposedly superior?

Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.

I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the challenge because it is at home in its element: namely, realism - real life - the now.

I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.

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.