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

I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject; the concept and statement must be quite convincing in themselves to win over a dramatic and compelling subject situation.

My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

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.

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

The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.