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.

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!

There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.

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.

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.