In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.

I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.

The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro.

Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.