In every photographer there is something of a stroller.

It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose in such a way that there's nothing left of truth.

We must respect the atmosphere which surrounds the human being

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant of preoccupation, being a simultaneous coalition - an organic coordination of visual elements.

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.

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