Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or that shadow, or the light).' As a matter of fact, I almost never wait, that is, unless I can see that the thing will be right in a few minutes. But if I must wait an hour for the shadow to move, or the light to change, or the cow to graze in the other direction, then I put up my camera and go on, knowing that I am likely to find three subjects just as good in the same hour.

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

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.

This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.

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

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

Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.