A stubborn ass needs a stubborn driver
It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.
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)
If Ansel Adams gets a thousand dollars a print, I want ten thousand.
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.
When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
I have a hard time watching the shows now. It is like opening up a yearbook when you were in junior high. I think everybody looks back at their photos and cringe, and I get to experience it with everybody else in the world looking at mine.
I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
Turbochargers are for people who cant build engines.