Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.

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

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

It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when it has a far more important bearing on the human race of a given locale than excrescences called cities.

A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.

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.

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.