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You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal. I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you couldn’t sit half way through it. The Pulitzer is a common prize that means very little.

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

The negative is comparable to the composer’s score , the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.