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.

Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.

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

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.

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

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.

Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.