A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.

People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.

I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.

I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.

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

If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.

I see no reason for recording the obvious.