The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it is precisely here that honesty no less than intensity of vision is the pre-requisite of a living expression. The fullest realization of this is accomplished without tricks of process or manipulation, through the use of straight photographic methods.

The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world.

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.

The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become impersonal-it tends to become universal and enduring because it comes out of something very particular.

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

Photography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919)