The basic material of photographs is not intrinsically beautiful. It's not like ivory or tapestry or bronze or oil on canvas. You're not supposed to look at the thing, you're supposed to look through it. It's a window.

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

A camera has interesting ideas of its own.

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

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

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.

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