Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.

The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to black is analogous to the eighty-eight keys and you have to be able to play all eighty-eight keys in that palette from white to black.

The camera cannot, but the photographer can.

Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.

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

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

The craft of photography is the key to good images.