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Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity.

Photography helps people to see.

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.

The art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about ...

Looking for art, the theme gets lost.
Finding the theme is finding art.

You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I'm the one to do it.

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.

I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.

Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.

Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.

I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.

I'm not a nice girl. I'm a photographer.

I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.

I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer.

The more you do, the more you realize there is to do, what a vast object the metropolis is, and how the work of photographing could go on forever.

I haven't seen too many images that have impressed me!