I have never forgotten a picture that I ever made.

Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.

The danger lies in unconventional experiments signaling for a general license to do as they please, and pass off sloppy workmanship as creative intention.

Photography is the only language understood in all parts of the world, and, bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man.

Good photography is unpretentious.

Instantaneity is photography.

Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.

Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera.

I photograph to find out what something looks like photographed.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face; the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited; and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

To collect photographs is to collect the world.

The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper ... the photographer begins with the finished product.

A photograph is not only an image ... it is also a trace, something directly stencilled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.

The photographer is like the cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.

The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.