The central act of photography, the act of choosing and eliminating, forces a concentration on the picture edge - the line that separates in from out - and on the shapes that are created by it.

The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.

Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher.

To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.

The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.

A camera has interesting ideas of its own.

Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.