I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.

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

The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

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

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.