What America needs is a political revolution.

It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.

The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.

You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style.

I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.

Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this: it is the capture and projection of the delights of seeing; it is the defining of observation full and felt.

Nobody should touch a Polaroid [camera] until he's over sixty