In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.

Let us... leave art to the artists, and let us try to use the medium of photography to create photographs that can endure because of their photographic qualities.

Technique does not need to be interpreted. It interprets itself. You have to choose the right objects and focus on them precisely and they will tell you their own stories.

... modern life is no longer thinkable without photography.

Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement

I'd like to briefly state the accomplishment that we expect from a photographer. He must make the person being photographed forget that he has eaten from the tree of knowledge.

Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness.

You'll never see us coming.

I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

Few things surpass old wine and they may preach Who please the more because they preach in vain - Let us have wine and women mirth and laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after.

Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.

I would like to bury all the hating eyes under the sand somewhere.

I wish everyone had the same chances," I say. "Because it stinks a big one that they don't." - Catherine

Time is running out for us But you just move the hands upon the clock You throw coins in the wishing well For us You just move your hands upon the wall