The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour that can't be said in black and white... Those who say that colour will eventually replace black and white are talking nonsense. The two do not compete with each other. They are different means to different ends.

The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding of his subject and mastery of his process.

Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.

To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.

A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.

I don't care if you make a print on a bath mat, just as long as it is a good print.

Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.