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

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?

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

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.

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

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.