The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world.

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment.

I'm always amused by the idea that certain people have about technique, which translate into an immoderate taste for the sharpness of the image. It is a passion for detail, for perfection, or do they hope to get closer to reality with this trompe I'oeil? They are, by the way, as far away from the real issues as other generations of photographers were when they obscured their subject in soft-focus effects.

For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.

...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.

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.