When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.

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.

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels...