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.

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.

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.

I read the other day that Minor White said it takes twenty years to become a photographer. I think that is a bit of an exaggeration. I would say, judging from myself, that it takes at least eight or nine years. But it does not take any longer than it takes to learn to play the piano or the violin. If it takes twenty years, you might as well forget about it!

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

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

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