The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them. On the one side, we over-intellectualize everything; on the other hand, we are over-mechanized. We can understand the danger of the atomic bomb, but the danger of our misunderstanding the meaning of life is much more serious.

I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the art of photography besides imitations of the best photographers on the market today, that is basic training, the understanding of self.

Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.

A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.