If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.

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

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

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.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.

A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.