The art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about.

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.

this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also.

If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.

Our job in life is not to be successful, but to be faithful.

The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.

We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.

I'm convinced I will be cleared of all these charges that were unfairly leveled against me.

My closet is in perfect order at home. All my dress shirts, all my casual shirts. All my suits, they're color coordinated. All my ties are color coordinated.

Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.

Let the music diffuse all the tension.

The blood of the Christians is seed