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.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

...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.

Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.