We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

The camera cannot, but the photographer can.

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

The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.