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

When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.

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.

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

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

Women-the greatest natural resource in the world today.