No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

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

A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.

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.

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

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

If it were possible for any one person or group of persons to go through a photographic finishing plant's work at the end of a day, you could probably pull out the most extraordinary photographic exhibition we've ever seen. On almost any subject. The trouble is to find the things.