"I have always maintained formal perfection: the structure or composition of a photograph is just as important as the subject. This is not an aesthetic demand, as one may assume, but a practical one. Only images powerfully grasped-streamlined-have the capacity to penetrate the memory, to remain there and to become, in a word, unforgettable. It is the sole criterion for a photograph."
"The range of vision of the great photographers is extremely narrow. They must confine themselves to their own peculiar obsessions and types of images which can express character and feelings: Westons's sand dunes of New Mexico; Ansel Adam's is vast cosmic landscapes; Arbus's is monsters; Atget's the streets of Paris."
