Plain Man Quotes

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.