It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first.

Most of my reading is rereading.

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.

Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.

You know that you can't make references to the Classics any longer and less and less to the English classics even.

Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently disappointed, surprised, unmoved when the see the real thing. For photographic images tend to subtract feeling from something we experience at first hand and the feelings they do arouse are, largely, not those we have in real life. Often something disturbs us more in photographed form than it does when we actually experience it.

The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.