All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache..

For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark of a personality..

I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique..

Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession..

The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of labor..

To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still..

Wherever there is light, one can photograph..

Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs..

My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most….

I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs..

When I make a picture, I make love..

Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute..

My photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. My prints show the world’s constant upsetting of man’s ….

Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere..

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it….

The goal of art was the vital expression of self..

If you place the imperfect next to the perfect, people will see the difference between the one and the other. But if you offer the imperfect alone, p….

A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience..

I detest tradition for tradition's sake; the half-alive; that which is not real. I feel no hatred of individuals, but of customs, traditions; superst….

There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so..

The scene fascinated me: a round straw hat; the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right; the white drawbridge, its railings made of chain; wh….