We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are."

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

The negative is the score, and the print the performance.

All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.

Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.

Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is not only a condition of nature, but a state of mind and mood and heart. It cannot be confined to the museum-case status—seen only as a passing diorama from superlative throughways.

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.