I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.

The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is learning to see photographically — that is, learning to see his subject matter in terms of the capacities of his tools and processes, so that he can instantaneously translate the elements and values in a scene before him into the photograph he wants to make.

I see no reason for recording the obvious.

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.

I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.

......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.