...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.

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.)

Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph.

Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact

Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners is in the instrument.

With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.