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

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.

My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject.

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

The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding of his subject and mastery of his process.

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

Is love like art - something always ahead, never quite attained.