It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.

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.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

The next time you pick up a camera think of it not as an inflexible and automated robot, but as a flexible instrument which you must understand to properly use. An electronic and optical miracle creates nothing on its own! Whatever beauty and excitement it can represent exist in your mind and spirit to begin with.

With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.