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.

As great a picture can be made as one's mental capacity-no greater. Art cannot be taught; it must be self-inspiration, though the imagination may be fired and the ambition and work directed by the advice and example of others.

...the pepper is beginning to show signs of strain, and tonight should grace a salad. It has been suggested that I am a cannibal to eat my models.

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

I find myself every so often looking at my ground glass as though the unrecorded image might escape me!

I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.