The camera can push the new medium to its limits - and beyond. It is there - in the "beyond" - that the imaginative photographer will compete with the imaginative painter. Painting must return to the natural world from time to time for renewal of the artistic vision. The key sector of renewal of vision today is the new vistas revealed by science. Here photography, which is not only art but science also, stands on the firmest ground.

As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers.

Any good photograph is a successful synthesis of technique and art.

Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer.

No one can do inspired work without genuine interest in his subject and understanding of its characteristics.

Once a photographer is convinced that the camera can lie and that, strictly speaking, the vast majority of photographs are camera lies, inasmuch as they tell only part of a story or tell it in distorted form, half the battle is won. Once he has conceded that photography is not a naturalistic medium of rendition and that striving for naturalism in a photograph is futile, he can turn his attention to using a camera to make more effective pictures.

A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.