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

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

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.

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

It isn't what a picture is of, it is what it is about.

They were ... pure and unadulterated photographs, and sometimes they hinted at the existence of visual truths that had escaped all other systems of detection.