Is love like art - something always ahead, never quite attained.

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

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

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

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

When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches.

People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.