One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.

The whole world is, to me, very much "alive" - all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life - the things going on - within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood.

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.