The Camera Is A Mirror With A

I Often Wonder Whether I Would Have Done As Well In Painting.

I Didn't Set Out To Do Something Different So Much As Do Something That Interested Me. I Wasn't Trying To Be Avant-garde - That's Being Fashionable. You Don't Set Out To Revolutionize Art, You Make Statements For Yourself.

I Am Convinced That Any Photographic Attempt To Show The Complete Man Is Nonsense. We Can Only Show, As Best We Can, What The Outer Man Reveals. The Inner Man Is Seldom Revealed To Anyone, Sometimes Not Even The Man Himself.

The Camera Is A Mirror With A Memory, But It Cannot Think.

I Don't Care What You Do With That Negative, You Can Retouch It, You Can Spit On It, You Can Grind It Underfoot. The Only Thing That Matters Is If It Is Honest. If [the Picture] Is Honest, You And Everybody Can Tell. If It Is Dishonest, You And Everybody Can Tell.