The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Color tends to corrupt photography and absolute color corrupts it absolutely. Consider the way color film usually renders blue sky, green foliage, lipstick red, and the kiddies' playsuit. These are four simple words which must be whispered: color photography is vulgar.

Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.

I never took it upon myself to change the world. And those contemporaries of mine who were going around falling for the idea that they were going to bring down the United States government and make a new world were just asses to me.

The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.

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

I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat.