Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!

I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.

A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.

Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.

The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time.

And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.

No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph.

I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.

Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others.

In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.

A time of solitude will always produce some fruits.

Quitters always believe the lies they tell themselves because delusion is easier to live with than the reality that they settled for an easier path.

She was no intellectual, but men were scrupulous about avoiding intellectual women unless they had the sense to keep it well hidden.

The difference between poverty and prosperity is the mindset of living out of necessity instead of possibility.

Awe is what moves us forward.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.

If you contribute to other peoples happiness, you will find the true meaning of life. The key point is to have a genuine sense of universal responsibility

I hold the view that death is rather like changing one's clothes when they are torn and old. It is not an end in itself. Yet death is unpredictable-you do not know when and howT it will take place.

There's nothing I'm particularly keen to hide about my humanity.