In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.

Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!

I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.

A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.

Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.

The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time.

And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.

No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph.

I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.

Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others.

Avoid the use of abusive words when communication is in session

He'd shot and beaten people because he couldn't talk to them.Violence was the only language nobody could understand. There were no translators.

Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.

[In politics,] when there is no reason to speak, there is a reason not to speak.

Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66 children, 0.032 cars, and 0.046 TVs.

It's because you're like that that you're still a virgin, you know.

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.

You marry at the level of your own psychological health.

Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!