When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

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

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

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.

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.

I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.

I am always surprised when I see several cameras, a gaggle on lenses, filters, meters, et cetera, rattling around in a soft bag with a complement of refuse and dust. Sometimes the professional is the worst offender!