The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.

The photographer is like the cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper ... the photographer begins with the finished product.

To collect photographs is to collect the world.

Photography is for me the simultaneous recognition in a fraction of a second of the significance of an event, as well as of a precise formal organization (i.e. composition) which brings that event to life.

The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect.

There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.

A photograph is not only an image ... it is also a trace, something directly stencilled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.