Let us see as steadily and completely as possible the realities of our age: the wasted lives, the scattered and misused resources (human and material…

- Clarence John Laughlin

I have approached the buildings as psychological and poetic manifestations - rather than from the more technical viewpoints of the architect and hist…

- Clarence John Laughlin

There is nothing, under present conditions, that can be more easily and exactly reproduced than a technically good black-and-white photograph, and it…

- Clarence John Laughlin

Photography is one of the most authentic and integral modes of expression possible in this world in which we live.

- Clarence John Laughlin

The mystery of light [and] the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition... my work attempts to create a myt…

- Clarence John Laughlin

One of my basic feelings is that the mind, and the heart alike, of the photographer must be dedicated to the glory, the magic, and the mystery of lig…

- Clarence John Laughlin

In our society, most of us wear protective masks of various kinds and for various reasons. Very often the end result is that the masks grow to us, di…

- Clarence John Laughlin

Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization, of acting an…

- Clarence John Laughlin

It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the object as a stepping stone to a rea…

- Clarence John Laughlin