Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.

The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You were within the portals of the temple ... to enter the wilderness and seek, in the primal patterns of nature, a magical union with beauty.

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Now there is a big turnover in the galleries. The top galleries are getting better all the time. A lot of galleries just struggle along, then a new one comes along. There are certainly a great number of galleries. I think this argues well for the art but there are, of course, a lot of "phonies" in all the arts.

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.