Ansel [Adams] always jumped over the fence to photograph, walked past the garbage. He always looked to get an immaculate view, and I spent my life st…

- Rondal Partridge

I never think of myself as an artist. I think of myself as making a point.

- Rondal Partridge

I have an abiding faith in the fact that time will change the value of photographs. What you see today may be so familiar to everyone that they don't…

- Rondal Partridge

So many people are diverted to doing what people want photographed - fashion models, buildings, mountains - they get to thinking those photographs ar…

- Rondal Partridge

Photography is a life of learning. That's all I want from photography. I don't want the money. I don't need the fame. I don't need the admiration. I'…

- Rondal Partridge

Edward [Weston] was the first artist - and I don't use the word lightly - to make a living doing art photography. Other photographers did commercial …

- Rondal Partridge

You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.

- Rondal Partridge

You have to bring to the photograph a prejudice about something, and I'm prejudiced against farmers who tie dead animals on fences. Therefore, I can …

- Rondal Partridge