The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Photography is the story I fail to put into words.

Without vision, the photographer perishes.

The pictures are there, and you just take them.

I’ve been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.

The earth is art, the photographer is only a witness.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until i set him free.

Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn’t waste either.

Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.

A camera is a SAVE button for the mind’s eye.

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Photography is a marvelous discovery, a science that has attracted the greatest intellects, and art that excites the most astute minds – and one that can be practiced by any imbecile.

I didn’t write the rules. Why should I follow them?

Photography’s 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent moving furniture.

Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.