The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.

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.

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

Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.

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.

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.

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