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

All good art is abstract in its structure.

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.

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

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.

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.

If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.