Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

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

Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.

I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that, if I feel something strongly, I would make a photograph, that would be the equivalent of what I saw and felt.

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.

A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.

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.