Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.

All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my work. But when I preach sharpness, brilliancy, scale, etc., I am just mouthing words, because no words can really describe those terms and qualities it takes the actual print to say, “here it is.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.

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

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.