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

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.

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

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.

No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras

I don't care if you make a print on a bath mat, just as long as it is a good print.