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The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.

What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.

Photography is the easiest medium with which to be merely competent. Almost anybody can be competent. It's the hardest medium in which to have some sort of personal vision and to have a signature style.

To photograph is to confer importance.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.