Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!

The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time.

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.

It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.

Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.

But I did not always know just what it was I wanted to photograph. I believe it is important for a photographer to discover this, for unless he finds what it is that excites him, what it is that calls forth at once an emotional response, he is unlikely to achieve his best work.

I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.