Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term, it is essential for them to be taught the real meaning of art.

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

I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.

There are many schools of painting. Why should there not be many schools of photographic art? There is hardly a right and a wrong in these matters, but there is truth, and that should form the basis of all works of art.

A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.

Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.

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.