No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

Every photograph is a fake from start to finish.

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

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

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