The really important thing is not to reject anything.

The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads – as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.

whatever doesn't kill you leaves scars.