A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

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

Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.

Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.

As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.