An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as possible, so as not to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses.

Nothing can be accomplished without love.

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.