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 con….

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

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration..

It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important work. Bet….

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man..

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it..

Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical ….

A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made..

Women-the greatest natural resource in the world today..

You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at... The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a….

I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself..

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize t….

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants..

When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I ….

The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of the….

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in ….

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth..

To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the art of photograp….

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism ….

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera..

Every photograph is a fake from start to finish..