The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways..

The craft of photography is the key to good images..

The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature..

In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration..

Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort..

The photo-journalist and the photo-poet are both important. The problem is to separate the major objectives of the various groups and not to attribut….

I think photography is being recognized and collected. Its values have certainly gone up and continue to go up..

The camera cannot, but the photographer can..

"Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me t….

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs..

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept..

We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves….

To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through….

In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a g….

How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level..

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition, suspicion,….

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words..

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectat….

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the w….

I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing de….

I've always thought photography was an art form, but it had very low appreciation in the beginning, except for some Europeans, and of course Stieglit….