Most of Tina Modotti's work that is known to the photography world was done in Mexico in the years 1923 through 1926, when she lived and worked with Edward Weston.

To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

Because we see reality in different ways, we must understand that we are looking at different truths rather than the truth and that, therefore, all photographs lie in one way or another.

Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere.

It isn't what a picture is of, it is what it is about.

The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.

The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive.

The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.

What's happening is that people are making a billion photographs a year of their cats, frequently with the cats wearing costumes. Do you think I should be doing shows of cat photography?

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

Regrets are for wusses.

Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.

Past Olympians have a continuing role within the Olympic family.

You can't say the negro left the Republican party; the negro feels he was evicted from the Republican party.

Creativity doesn't follow titles. It just comes from where it comes from.

I'm driving my old car until I'm on a first name basis with the low tow truck drivers!

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

Love is nothing other than finding the truth.

Always give a hundred percent, and you'll never have to second-guess yourself.