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

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 work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject.

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

I see no reason for recording the obvious.

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

...the pepper is beginning to show signs of strain, and tonight should grace a salad. It has been suggested that I am a cannibal to eat my models.