Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

A photograph is a portrait painted by the sun

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us ro see.