Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.
The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.
I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term-selectivity.
What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity.
If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.
There's a rebel lying deep in my soul.
See what a person is doing every day, day after day, and you'll know who that person is and what he or she is becoming.
Between extremities Man runs his course; A brand, or flaming breath, Comes to destroy All those antinomies Of day and night.