I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery.

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

All light is available light.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger.

To be a photographer you must have something 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)