It Should Be The Aim Of Every

Within Every Man And Woman A Secret Is Hidden, And As A Photographer It Is My Task To Reveal It If I Can. The Revelation, If It Comes At All, Will Come In A Small Fraction Of A Second With An Unconscious Gesture, A Gleam Of The Eye, A Brief Lifting Of The Mask That All Humans Wear To Conceal Their Innermost Selves From The World. In That Fleeting Interval Of Opportunity The Photographer Must Act Or Lose His Prize.

If There Is A Single Quality That Is Shared By All Great Men, It Is Vanity. But I Mean By Vanity Only That They Appreciate Their Own Worth. Without This Kind Of Vanity They Would Not Be Great. And With Vanity Alone, Of Course, A Man Is Nothing.

It Should Be The Aim Of Every Photographer To Make A Single Exposure That Shows Everything About The Subject. I Have Been Told That My Portrait Of Churchill Is An Example Of This.

Look And Think Before Opening The Shutter. The Heart And Mind Are The True Lens Of The Camera.

We May Never Be Able To Pay Directly For The Gifts Of True Friendship - But Pay We Must, Even Though We Make Our Payment To Someone Who Owes Us Nothing, In Some Other Place And At Some Other Time.