1. “Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.”
2. “Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper. The photographer begins with the finished product.”
3. “No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.”
4. “A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.”
5. “When the shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.”
6. “Once you really commence to see things then you really commence to feel things.”
7. “The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.”
8. “Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.”
9. “Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.”
10. “Art for art’s sake is dead, if it ever lived.”
11. “There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn’t had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn’t be here. We have survived it on our optimism.”
12. “A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.”
13. “I was coming to realize hat the real magician was light itself.”
14. “Every photograph is fake from start to finish.”
15. “A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.”
