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.

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

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

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

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

Every photograph is a fake from start to finish.

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