I never know in advance what I will photograph,...I Go Out into the World and Hope I Will come across something that Imperatively interests me. I Am Addicted to the Found object. I have No doubt that I Will Continue to make Photographs till my last Breath.

I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.

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

The great rocks of Yosemite, expressing qualities of timeless yet intimate grandeur, are the most compelling formations of their kind. We should not casually pass them by, for they are the very heart of the earth speaking to us.

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.

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

All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.