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.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

"Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?""

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.

The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.

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.

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.