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The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can’t do anything anyway.

To photograph truthfully , effectively is to see beneath the surfaces , record the qualities of nature , humanity which live or are latent in all things.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.