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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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