You don't take a photograph, you make it.

I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.

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

Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.

I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

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.