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

No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you print it, you cannot say more than you can see.

Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.

If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.

Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.

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

Your photography is a record of your living - for anyone who really sees. You may see and be affected by other people's ways, you may even use them to find your own, but you will have eventually to free yourself of them. That is what Nietzche meant when he said, 'I have just read Schopenhauer, now I have to get rid of him.' He knew how insidious other people's ways could be, particularly those which have the forcefulness of profound experience, if you let them get between you and your own personal vision.