To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.

There is no closed figure in nature. Every shape participates with another. No one thing is independent of another, and one thing rhymes with another, and light gives them shape.

Of course it's all luck.

...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.

I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us.

While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.

And no photographs taken with the aid of flashlight either, if only out of respect of the actual light—even when there isn't any of it.