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There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

It's far better to shoot a good picture than a good-looking picture.

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

When I am preparing my 'lookalike' photographs, I think about the character of the real people, because, if the photographs are going to be plausible, you have to convince the viewer that they could have happened.

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.