Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.

Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer.

You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I'm the one to do it.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

I wanted to combine science and photography in a sensible, unemotional way. Some people’s ideas of scientific photography is just arty design, something pretty. That was not the idea. The idea was to interpret science sensibly, with good proportion, good balance and good lighting, so we could understand it.

Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would help construct a better organized image.