I spell 'god' with a small 'g' because I do not believe in him, but I love to swear by him.
There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.
To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still.
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
The fight for photography became my life.
The great geniuses are those who have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.
Beautiful dreams - if the world were more beautiful they would come true - But the world is relentless & cruel - people are - they must be, I suppose, or they could not live.
I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.
I am not contain'd between my hat and boots.
Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
The light of genius is sometimes so resplendent as to make a man walk through life, amid glory and acclamation; but it burns very dimly and low when carried into "the valley of the shadow of death. " But faith is like the evening star, shining into our souls the more brightly, the deeper is the night of death in which they sink.