Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing.

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

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.

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.

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