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.

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.

Bad weather makes for good photography.

Now there is a big turnover in the galleries. The top galleries are getting better all the time. A lot of galleries just struggle along, then a new one comes along. There are certainly a great number of galleries. I think this argues well for the art but there are, of course, a lot of "phonies" in all the arts.

I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.

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

My wife - she could help me get the negs out!