A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children..

The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to perceive the aesthetic reality within the ac….

The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time..

And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal, bearing invisibly near, by the unwarned c….

One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind: and that as this s….

It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in wit….

I know the most important faculty to develop is one for hard, continuous and varied work and living; but the difference between knowing this and doin….

As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that "adjustment" to a sick and insane e….

By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth, lying, on quilts, on the grass in a summ….

I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive..

When he ran from a cop, his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint . . . wer….

The camera is just a machine, which records with impressive and as a rule very cruel faithfulness..

I know I am making the choice most dangerous to an artist in valuing life above art..

I suspect the fault...is in me: that I hate any job on earth, as a job and a hindrance and a semi-suicide..

I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his 'limits' of fully 'realizing' his potentialities; that this, his being cheated and….

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes..

In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him….

...but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured and dishonored, and ….

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child..

It is probably well on the conservative side to estimate that during the past ten to fifteen years the camera has destroyed a thousand pairs of eyes,….

Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one in….