A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

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.

In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he thinks will make the pictures.

Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's cone of vision, while standing in the right place at the right time. Like chess, or writing, it is a matter of choosing from among given possibilities, but in the case of photography the number of possibilities is not finite but infinite.

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

Photography is choosing where to point your eye-cone.