I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.

To see the Thing itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism... This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. Significant presentation - not interpretation.

...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.

No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras

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

Now one does not think during creative work: any more than one thinks when driving a car. One has a background of years — learning — unlearning— success — failure — dreaming — thinking — experience — back it goes — farther back than one's ancestors: all this, — then the moment of creation, the focussing of all into the moment. So I can make — "without thought" — fifteen carefully-considered negatives one every fifteen minutes, — given material with as many possibilities.

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