When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches.

It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when it has a far more important bearing on the human race of a given locale than excrescences called cities.

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.

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

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

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.

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