I was living in Germany in the thirties, and I knew that Hitler had made it his mission to exterminate all Jews, especially the children and the wome…

- Roman Vishniac

Nature, God, or whatever you want to call the creator of the universe comes through the microscope clearly and strongly

- Roman Vishniac

You can't teach biology with a bottle containing dead animals and organisms.

- Roman Vishniac

Can you call a farm with a dozen geese a farm? Still, it was a little better for the Jews in Czechoslovakia. There were only two pogroms there. What'…

- Roman Vishniac

The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental process that starts with…

- Roman Vishniac

A man with a camera was always suspected of being a spy. Moreover, the Jews did not want to be photographed, due to a misunderstanding of the prohibi…

- Roman Vishniac

Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world that might cease to exist.

- Roman Vishniac

Everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnification--crude, rough, and asymmetrical. But in nature every bit of life is lovely. And the…

- Roman Vishniac

The Jews of the shtetls that Tolstoy remembered were saints... the people I photographed were saints. So now, in 1983, I tell the world: When you lea…

- Roman Vishniac