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

The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it.

Of course it's all luck.

Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.

Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important.

Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. Success depends on the extent of one's general culture. one's set of values, one's clarity of mind one's vivacity. The thing to be feared most is the artificially contrived, the contrary to life.

Photography must seize upon this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it. The photographers eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence of line simply by moving his head a fraction of a millimeter. He can modify perspectives by a slight bending of the knees. By placing the camera closer to or farther from the subject, he draws a detail — and it can be subordinated, or he can be tyrannized by it.