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

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

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

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

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

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.

Every photograph is a fake from start to finish.