Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.

I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.

What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.

Photography helps people to see.

I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.

Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times - the pulse of today.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.

Daphne’s thought in Nation: This was no time to go totally mad. You had to maintain standards.

Here everybody has a neighbor Everybody has a friend Everybody has a reason to begin again.

The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

The truth is stranger than fiction . . . and often more incriminating.

Without you, there'd be no sun in my sky, there would be no love in my life, there'd be no world left of me.

Republicans are being counseled to move the party to the left, but in my experience, those who advocate more liberal policies for the GOP are wrongheaded or Democrats, or both.

The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.

The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods.