I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach..

For photography is a way to capture the moment - not just any moment, but the important one, this one moment out of all time when your subject is rev….

I see no reason for recording the obvious..

To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible..

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

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….

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

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….

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

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

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

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

Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing..

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

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….

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..

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..

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..

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