Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the art of photography besides imitations of the best photographers on the market today, that is basic training, the understanding of self.

The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.