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

If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this: See the subject first. Do not try to force it to be a picture of this, that or the other thing. Stand apart from it. Then something will happen. The subject will reveal itself.

It is essential for the photographer to know the effect of his lenses. The lens is his eye, and it makes or ruins his pictures. A feeling for composition is a great asset. I think it is very much a matter of instinct. It can perhaps be developed, but I doubt if it can be learned. To achieve his best work, the young photographer must discover what really excites him visually. He must discover his own world.

Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.

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

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.

And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.