I respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty of objective bodies, he must possess the capacity of self-perfection and must observe and represent his world with full confidence.

Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .

I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one's eyes in a continual cascade of form and meaning.

Notebook. No photographer should be without one!

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my work. But when I preach sharpness, brilliancy, scale, etc., I am just mouthing words, because no words can really describe those terms and qualities it takes the actual print to say, “here it is.

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