I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one's eyes in a continual cascade of form and meaning.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

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.

My wife - she could help me get the negs out!

I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.