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

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

When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches.

A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.

As great a picture can be made as one's mental capacity-no greater. Art cannot be taught; it must be self-inspiration, though the imagination may be fired and the ambition and work directed by the advice and example of others.

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.