Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings.

Pure photography is a system of picture-making that describes more or less faithfully what might be seen through a rectangular frame from a particular vantage point at a given moment.

Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings.

Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher.

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

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

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