1. “Every experience is a form of exploration.”
2. “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”
3. “A good photograph is knowing where to stand.”
4. “Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.”
5. “There is nothing worse than a sharp image if a fuzzy concept.”
6. “A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense about what is being photographed.”
7. “It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”
8. “I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.”
9. “There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”
10. “There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer.”
11. “Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.”
12. “Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.”
13. “The negative is the equivalent of the composer’s score and the print the performance.”
14. “The only things in my life that compatibility exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.”
15. “To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.”
