Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.
If Ansel Adams gets a thousand dollars a print, I want ten thousand.
If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.
I don't care how you photograph - use the kitchen mop if you must, but if the product is not true to the laws of photography. . . you have produced something that is dead. (1923)
The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become impersonal-it tends to become universal and enduring because it comes out of something very particular.
Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.
The documentary photographer aims his camera at the real world to record truthfulness. At the same time, he must strive for form, to devise effective ways of organizing and using the material. For content and form are interrelated. The problems presented by content and form must be so developed that the result is fundimentally [sic] true to the realities of life as we know it. The chief problem is to find a form that adequately represents the reality.
When I was a kid, we sat around the house. If I got bored, I'd have to figure out something to do.
Hillary Clinton is taken in massive amounts of money from foreign countries and other things.
Everybody prefers to see a nut - they're more fascinating.
In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable