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

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

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

I don't care how you photograph - use the kitchen mop if you must, but if the product is not true to the laws of photography... you have produced something that is dead. (1923)

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.

If Ansel Adams gets a thousand dollars a print, I want ten thousand.

Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation