With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.

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

I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term - meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching - there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

Photography and photographers have an inevitable development. They progress more or less by steps. Every five or ten years some new point of view is developed and young people are inclined to follow it.