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

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

It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.

To see the Thing itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism... This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. Significant presentation - not interpretation.

I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.

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

Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.