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.

If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.

Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these.

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.