I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.

You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.

There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.

Few ever see what is not already inside their heads.

Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of inflicting in the way of gruesome, hands-on cruelties upon other humans, has not reached moral or psychological adulthood.

To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power.

One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.