What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty is everything!

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

To me photography is the simultaneous recognition in a fraction of a second of the significance of an event.

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