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

Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere near a beach.

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.

That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.

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.

It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.

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.