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

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour that can't be said in black and white... Those who say that colour will eventually replace black and white are talking nonsense. The two do not compete with each other. They are different means to different ends.

Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.

To see the Thing itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism... This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. Significant presentation - not interpretation.

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.

It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.