By sight and observation and thought, with the help of the camera, and the addition of the date of the year, we can hold fast the history of the world.

I never made a person look bad. They do that themselves.

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.

Nothing is more hateful to me than photography coated with gimmicks, poses and false effects. Therefore let me speak the truth in all honesty about our age and the people of our age

Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.

No language on earth speaks as comprehensively as photography, always providing that we follow the chemical and optic and physical path to demonstrable truth, and understand physiognomy.

Therefore, let me in honesty speak the truth about our epoch and people.

I hate nothing more than sugary photographs with tricks, poses and effects. So allow me to be honest ?and tell the truth about our age and its people.

Photography has no dark sides!

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

Don't be afraid to be who you are, we were created to perfect in our own imperfect way.

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

I like the nice guys. I like when they show the stories, the human element behind it all.

He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions.

Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever.

You can tell a good ruined lens, right from the get-go.... That’s the kind of lens I'm looking for.

The miracle of your being cannot escape itself. Your thoughts blossom into events. Your beliefs grow as surely in time and space as flowers do.

I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses.

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.