No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made

A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.