It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important work. Better positive and important with mistakes and failures than perfect mediocrity.

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.