Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.

For photography is a way to capture the moment - not just any moment, but the important one, this one moment out of all time when your subject is revealed to the fullest - that moment of perfection which comes once and is not repeated.

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

A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.

The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.

I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.

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