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

All light is available light.

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.

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.

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

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