The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is learning to see photographically — that is, learning to see his subject matter in terms of the capacities of his tools and processes, so that he can instantaneously translate the elements and values in a scene before him into the photograph he wants to make.

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

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

The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.

An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.

Is love like art - something always ahead, never quite attained.