What's happening is that people are making a billion photographs a year of their cats, frequently with the cats wearing costumes. Do you think I should be doing shows of cat photography?

The simplicity of photography lies in the fact that it is very easy to make a picture. The staggering complexity of it lies in the fact that a thousand other pictures of the same subject would have been equally easy.

Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.

A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself.

Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere.

A camera has interesting ideas of its own.

Photography is choosing where to point your eye-cone.