The 'I' character in journalism is almost pure invention.

The 'I' character in journalism is almost pure invention.

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s right to know’; the least talented talk about Art; the seemliest murmur about earning a living.

[The] arresting of time is photography's unique capacity, and the decision of when to click the shutter is the photographer's chief responsibility.

There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.

The heavy odds against finding the desired... work of art in the mess and flux of life, as opposed to the serene orderliness of imagined reality, give a special tense dazzle and an atmosphere of tour de force to any photographs that succeed in the search.