[The Poles] will die for their country; but few will work for it.
To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia.
One of these days, I'm going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take.
What counts is putting the intensity that you yourself have experienced into the picture. Otherwise it is just a document.
A photograph is a moment when you press the button. It will never come back.
On digital photography: It's fantastic, but it's not a freebie for anything. You still have to have this (he points to his eyes), and this (points to his heart), and feet.
A digital camera has to be kept in check like a racehorse.
Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data -- i. e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion.
It is the simple truth that man does differ from the brutes in kind and not in degree; and the proof of it is here; that it sounds like a truism to say that the most primitive man drew a picture of a monkey and that it sounds like a joke to say that the most intelligent monkey drew a picture of a man. Something of division and disproportion has appeared; and it is unique. Art is the signature of man.
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.