The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of labor.

My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most profound life experiences.

All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache.

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.

I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.

All I want is to preserve that wonderful something which so purely exists between us.

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.