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.

Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?

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

There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me.

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.

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

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