The decision as to when to photograph, the actual click of the shutter, is partly controlled from the outside, by the flow of life, but it also comes….

I read the other day that Minor White said it takes twenty years to become a photographer. I think that is a bit of an exaggeration. I would say, jud….

Photography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919).

Your photography is a record of your living - for anyone who really sees. You may see and be affected by other people's ways, you may even use them t….

I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of research into and reporting on th….

The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and all comparison of potentialities i….

Every artist I suppose has a sense of what they think has been the importance of their work. But to ask them to define it is not really a fair questi….

Cartier-Bresson has said that photography seizes a 'decisive moment', that's true except that it shouldn't be taken too narrowly...does my picture of….

Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life..

If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist..

To be a photographer you must have something to say about the world..

Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and if you care enough about photogra….

If Ansel Adams gets a thousand dollars a print, I want ten thousand..

The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world..