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.

Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for a machine to record, and of course the mechanics of the medium. I say that chance enters into all branches of art.

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

If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.

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

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

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