Most of Tina Modotti's work that is known to the photography world was done in Mexico in the years 1923 through 1926, when she lived and worked with Edward Weston.

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

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

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

Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately informative, and pointless. But if one insists in a photograph that is both complex and vigorous it is almost impossible

The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive.

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.