The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?.

If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography..

Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk..

A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others..

Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or that shadow, or the light).' As….

The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel ca….

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic..

Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing..

Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man..

I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitati….

This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock..

I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divi….

The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour that can't….

Dare to be irrational! - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid..

The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is learning t….

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be..

When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision..

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual..

Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?.

I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better..

Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them..